Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Maria Edgeworth NPG P5

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Richard Beard

Author, best remembered for her novels, including Castle Rackrent (1800), Belinda (1802), The Absentee (1812) and Ormond (1817), noteworthy for their humanitarian interest, particularly in the life of the Irish peasantry. Her humanitarian attitudes were encouraged by her father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, who supervised her education and involved her in the usually masculine role of running his estates as well as travelling with him on the continent. Together they wrote the influential primer Practical Education (1788), a sympathetic and enlightened scheme for the domestic... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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