Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

(Joan) Pernel Strachey; Lytton Strachey NPG x13084

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

College head and French scholar. The eighth of ten surviving children of Sir Richard and Jane Strachey; her brothers included the central Bloomsbury figure Lytton Strachey. Pernel specialised in French at Newnham College and returned as a lecturer, becoming director of studies in modern and medieval languages in 1907. As Principal of the College (1923-41) she encouraged equality for women and the entry of women into new fields of employment.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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