A circle of sisters, Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin, Judith Flanders
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A circle of sisters, Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin, Judith Flanders
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-376) and index
resource.biographical
collective biography
Illustrations
illustrationsplates
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A circle of sisters
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
57366078
Responsibility statement
Judith Flanders
Sub title
Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
Summary
Daughters of a poor Methodist minister, the Macdonald sisters started life precariously stationed in the lower-middle class. Denied the advantage of a traditional education, or the expectation of social advancement, as wives and mothers they made a single family of a famous painter (Georgiana's husband, pre-Raphaelite Edward Burne-Jones), a president of the royal Academy (Agnes' husband, painter-critic Edward Pointer), a prime minister (Louisa's son Stanley Baldwin) and a poet (Alice's son Rudyard Kipling). They lived at an exceptional moment in British history, and their journey from provincial obscurity to metropolitan and imperial grandeur symbolized the energy and vitality of 19th-century Britain.--From publisher description
Table Of Contents
Childhood -- Marriage and children -- Empty nests -- Old age and death