Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Dame Rebecca West (Cicily Isabel Andrews (née Fairfield)) NPG x6611

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by George Charles Beresford

As a teenager, West's precocious journalism flourished in the feminist weekly the Freewoman, prompting George Bernard Shaw to praise her for writing 'as brilliantly as ever I could, and much more savagely'. Eight novels include The Fountain Overflows (1957) and The Sunflower, published posthumously, and portraying aspects of her ten-year relationship with the writer H.G. Wells. West's reportage of the Nuremberg trials, The Meaning of Treason (1949), and her cultural study of the Balkan states, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (1937), put her... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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