num_pages: 392
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
titlecomplete: A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
genres: Art History, Biography, Family, British Literature, Nonfiction, 19th Century, Biography Memoir, Art, History, Victorian
ratings_count: 282
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist
publisher: Penguin Books