Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Edward Carpenter NPG Ax45351

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Unknown photographer

Writer and advocate of libertarian beliefs; after a brief career at Cambridge, worked as a University Extension lecturer in northern England; settled at Millthorpe, Derbyshire, 1883, where he combined his literary work with a simple life of gardening and sandal-making. Influenced by Walt Whitman and Socialism, his works include Towards Democracy, 1883-1902, England's Ideal, 1885, and Civilisation, its Cause and Cure, 1889. From 1893, he lived openly with his working class lover, George Merrill. This rejection of conventional notions of social and sexual behaviour... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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