Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Ellen Cicely Wilkinson NPG x14690

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Trade unionist and politician. Ellen Wilkinson read history at Manchester University and became the national woman organiser of the Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers in 1915. She served as Labour MP for Middlesbrough East (1924-31) - the only female Labour MP in that parliament and elected when she herself did not qualify to vote - and for Jarrow (1935-47). She was Chair of the Labour party 1944-45 and Minister for Education 1945-47.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.