Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

D.H. Lawrence; Frieda Emma Johanna Maria Lawrence (née von Richthofen) NPG x140425

© National Portrait Gallery, London

possibly by Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lawrence's early novel, Sons and Lovers (1913), is set against his own background of a Nottinghamshire mining family. Later works dealing with personal relationships, sexual experience and spontaneous emotion made a profound impact, both literary and social. His best known novels include The Rainbow (1915), Women in Love (1920), and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928, but banned until 1960). His depiction of sexuality shocked many readers, and obituaries presented adverse responses to his achievement. However, the novelist E.M. Forster was an exception, describing him as... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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