Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Unknown woman engraved as Maria Edgeworth NPG D4455

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Mackenzie, after William Marshall Craig

Maria Edgeworth is significant as the inventor of the Anglo-Irish regional novel and its introduction to a wide English readership. Her most famous novel was Castle Rackrent (1800). It chronicled the decline of an Anglo-Irish family, narrated by a local servant whose representation was a sympathetic, if still paternalistic, departure from the traditional portrayals of the Irish in English literature and theatre. Later novels explored the consequences of the 1801 Union and the fate of the Anglo-Irish élite who moved to London.

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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