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 |
Publication date: | 2nd May 2002 |
Author: | Judith Flanders |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 432 pages |
Genres: |
Biography: historical, political and military European history Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Biography: general Biography: philosophy and social sciences General and world history |