Charles Reade Greetings Card
Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:
Charles Reade NPG 1633
© National Portrait Gallery, London
by Percy Fitzgerald
Pursued a mildly Bohemian existence in Soho and was a staunch member of the Garrick club. He was thirty-eight when his first novel, Peg Woffington, appeared, and he achieved his first great success with It is Never too Late to Mend in 1856. He had tried to make his mark as a playwright, and his first three novels were all initially written as plays. His most successful theatrical venture was the play, Drink (1879), adapted from Zola's L'assomoire. Although critical opinion of his work... more
Card size: 125mm x 175mm
Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.










