Dimensions | 17 × 24 × 4 cm |
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In the original dustsheet. Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.
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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.
Reviews:
I have read all of Judith Flanders books and now starting to re-read the Victorian house once again. Judith is the most wonderful writer and her books are filled, jam packed solid, with so much interesting information. She has certainly done her research excellently and I personally find her books un-put downable. Judith Flanders is a very talented and excellent writer and I can only highly recommend her books to anyone who is interested in Victorian england. Thank you Judith, please keep writing your stuff because I am awaiting your next publication.
Beautifully written, this book about four Macdonald sisters has plenty of surprises, not least that this ‘circle of sisters’, who were not from a particularly literary background, married famous men, or became mothers of famous men, including the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones, Stanley Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling and others. They remained close as sisters and added extra dimensions to these men’s lives. they were friends with William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and others. I really enjoyed it and will read it again and again.
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