A Circle of Sisters
Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- Paperback
432 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2002
Summary
‘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 t…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140284898 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140284893 |
| Author: | Judith Flanders |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2002 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
“Drive[s] a four-horse chariot through the nineteenth century…. I have enjoyed this book more than I can say.”
Judith Flanders
Judith Flanders is a freelance journalist and writer. This is her first book for Viking. Previously, she worked in publishing and for the National Portrait Gallery. She lives in London, NW5.
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