A Circle of Sisters
Author: Flanders, Judith
ISBN: 9780140284898
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 02 May 2002
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
'Terrific - a biography of four remarkable sisters and an exhibition of Victorian artistic and middle-class life, public and domestic' Jan Morris
The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. In telling their remarkable story, Judith Flanders displays the fluidity of Victorian society, and explores the life of the family in the 19th century.
ISBN: 9780140284898
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 02 May 2002
Pages: 432
Format: Paperback / softback
'Terrific - a biography of four remarkable sisters and an exhibition of Victorian artistic and middle-class life, public and domestic' Jan Morris
The Macdonald sisters -- Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa -- started life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement. But as wives and mothers they made a single family of the poet Rudyard Kipling, the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, and the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin. In telling their remarkable story, Judith Flanders displays the fluidity of Victorian society, and explores the life of the family in the 19th century.
