Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Elizabeth Barrett Browning NPG 322

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Field Talfourd

A poet highly regarded in her own day, Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s reputation now rests chiefly on Sonnets from the Portuguese, plus the long narrative poem ‘Aurora Leigh’. During her lifetime, she was also known for her anti-slavery poetry. Both sides of Browning’s family owned slaves with her grandfathers on each side being slave-owners. The knowledge that her ancestors had taken part in the trade of enslaved Africans deeply affected her and she called their complicity in the slave trade a ‘curse’. After eloping with the... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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