Miss Katherine Ruck Keene Country Life Magazine Portrait October 31 2002

Miss Katherine Ruck Keene Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, October 31, 2002. CXCVI No. 44

Miss Katherine Ruck Keene - Katie, aged 21, is the eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs David Ruck Keene, of Troy, Ewelme, Oxfordshire. She is in her final year reading English literature at the University of Newcastle, and next year will take an MA in English literature at the Sorbonne.

This is an authentic original page from Country Life magazine, part of the iconic series often affectionately referred to as the “Girls in Pearls” portraits — elegant society images that captured a distinctive era of British publishing and portraiture.

Size: Approximately 12.5 x 9 inches (32 x 23 cm)

Condition: Very good for its age. As with all vintage magazine pages, light signs of handling or minor age-related blemishes may be present. Please review the large photo carefully for full condition details. The reverse side contains unrelated printed text, as issued.

This original Country Life Magazine frontispiece portrait forms part of The Old Map Shop’s curated archive of society portraits published between 1897 and 2026.