Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Zena Dare NPG x198349

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Lilian Beel, published by Davidson Brothers

The daughter of Arthur Dones, a clerk in the Divorce Court, Zena Dare first appeared on stage at the age of 12 in the pantomime Bluebell in Fairyland. At her mother’s insistence she continued her education, in Brussels, until she was launched as a major star in the musical comedy The Catch of the Season in 1905. With her younger sister Phyllis, Marie Studholme and Gabrielle Ray, Zena became one of the four reigning beauties of the picture-postcard era; at its height, in 1908, 860… more

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Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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