Circle Of Sisters Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, And Louisa Baldwin

The Macdonald sisters--Alice, Georgiana, Agnes, and Louisa--started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. Yet as wives and mothers they would connect a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister, and the uncrowned poet laureate of the Empire. Georgiana and Alice married, respectively, the pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones and the arts administrator Edward Poynter; Louisa gave birth to future prime minister Stanley Baldwin, and Alice was mother to Rudyard Kipling. A Circle of Sisters brings to life four women living at a privileged moment in history. Their progress from obscurity to imperial grandeur indicates the vitality of nineteenth-century Britain: a society abundant with possibility. From their homes in India, America, and England, the sisters formed a network that, through the triumphs and tragedies of their families and the Empire, uniquely endured.Flanders, Judith is the author of 'Circle Of Sisters Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, And Louisa Baldwin', published 2005 under ISBN 9780393052107 and ISBN 0393052109.