Charlotte Smith (née Turner) Greetings Card

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Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Charlotte Smith (née Turner) NPG D4460

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ridley & Holl, published by James Asperne, after George Romney

Charlotte Smith was a poet and novelist who lived in rural Sussex. Her most famous work was the Elegiac Sonnets that, within the first twenty years of being published, went through nine editions and filled two volumes. Charlotte married Richard Smith, the son of a West India merchant and director of the East India Company. Richard was an owner of plantations and enslaved Africans in Barbados. While Charlotte played a small role in the business and her family income relied on the slave trade, she... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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

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