Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Laurence Housman NPG Ax136082

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Howard Coster

Born in Worcestershire Laurence was the younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman. His first career was as a book illustrator working in an Art Nouveau style. He achieved success with his novel An Englishwoman's Love-letters (1900), before writing dramas such as Little Plays of St Francis (1922), Angels and Ministers (1921) and Victoria Regina (1937). Housman, circumvented theatrical censorship (owing to the representation of certain biblical characters and living Royals) by having his plays, considered scandalous at the time, produced privately until... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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