A circle of sisters
Subtitle: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin
By: Judith Flanders.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
Subjects: Baldwin, Louisa, 1845-1925.; Burne-Jones, Georgiana, Lady, 1840-1920.; Kipling, Alice, 1837-1910.; Poynter, Agnes, 1843-1906.; McDonald family.; Women -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Sisters -- Great Britain -- Biography.; Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 19th century.; Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Great Britain -- Biography.; Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "The Macdonald sisters - Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa - started life precariously stationed in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle class. They were denied the advantage of a traditional education, or the expectation of social advancement. Yet, as wives and mothers, they were to connect a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister and a poet. Georgiana and Agnes married, respectively, Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter; Louisa gave birth to Stanley Baldwin, whilst Alice was the mother of Rudyard Kipling." "A Circle of Sisters brings to life four women who lived at an exceptional and privileged moment in history. Their journey, in a single generation, from provincial obscurity to metropolitan and imperial grandeur symbolized the energy and vitality of nineteenth-century Britain. This was a society open to talent and abundant with possibility, where four lowly born sisters could rise to become the intimates of politicians, princes and viceroys."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-376) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I. Childhood; title: I. Inheritance; title: 2. 'So entirely domestic': I 835-185o; title: 3. 'A moving tent': 1850-1853; title: 4. London: 'enchanted ground': 1853- 85 8; title: II. Marriage and Children; title: 5. Travelling in New Worlds: I859-1862; title: 6. The Industrious Apprentices: 1862- I866; title: 7. 'Love enough to last out a long life': 1866-1871; title: 8. Spartan Mothers: I872-1877; title: 9. Faith and Works: 1877-1882; title: III. Empty Nests; title: I0. The Families Square: 1882-1884; title: 11. Leaving Home: I884-I888; title: 12. The Cousinhood: I888-1892; title: 13. Settling Down: 1892-1894; title: 14. Separations: 1895-1898; title: IV. Old Age and Death; title: I5. 'A pack of troubles': 1898-1906; title: I6. 'The pain of parting'; title: Afterword; title: Notes; title: Select Bibliography; title: Index.