Jeanette ('Jennie') Churchill (née Jerome), Lady Randolph Churchill ('Women of the Day. No. 2299. "Mrs George Cornwallis West."') Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Jeanette ('Jennie') Churchill (née Jerome), Lady Randolph Churchill ('Women of the Day. No. 2299. "Mrs George Cornwallis West."') NPG D45689
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by 'K'
American-born heiress and society figure and mother of Sir Winston Churchill. One of the first so-called 'buccaneers' to cross the ocean, setting the trend of marrying into British aristocracy. In 1867 she and her two sisters were taken to Paris by their mother, and her education and introduction to society followed the manner of the European upper classes. In 1873 she met Lord Randolph Churchill, son of the Duke of Marlborough, marrying him in 1874. During the Boer War she fund-raised to... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










