Miss Edwina Drake Country Life Magazine Portrait December 3 2008

Miss Edwina Drake Country Life Magazine Portrait, Frontispiece, December 3 2008. CCII No. 49

Miss Edwina Drake - Edwina, who celebrated her 21st birthday on November 18, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs William Drake, of Twinstead Manor, Sudbury, Suffolk. Educated at Benenden, she spent the summer teaching English in the Cook Islands, and is now in her second year at Bristol reading Sociology. Edwina's grandmother also appeared on the COUNTRY LIFE frontispiece, on October 1, 1953.

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.