Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

George Eliot NPG 2211

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Laura Theresa (née Epps), Lady Alma-Tadema

One of the greatest Victorian novelists and recognised as such in her lifetime. Known by her pen name, Eliot was born Mary Ann Evans. She had strong evangelical sympathies and translated Strauss's Life of Jesus, 1846, and other works. Her great novels include The Mill on the Floss, 1860, Romola, 1862-3, Middlemarch, 1871-2, and Daniel Deronda, 1874-6. Evans challenged Victorian social conventions by living for many years with the writer and critic George Henry Lewes, who was separated but not divorced from his wife,... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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