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Victorian Sisters: The Remarkable Macdonald Women and the Great Men They Inspired
Victorian Sisters The Remarkable Macdonald Women and the Great Men They Inspired Author:Ina Taylor In this intimate portrait of Victorian times, Ina Taylor brings to light the little-known accomplishments of four outstanding women ? sisters who became the guiding force behind four famous men. The Macdonald sisters were wives and mothers of four men of distinction: Alice, mother of Rudyard Kipling, Georgie, married Edward Burne-Jones, Agnes, m... more »arried Edward Poynter; Louisa, mother of Stanley Baldwin.
Ina Taylor examines the background of these impressive women ? their strictly Methodist upbringing in the grim industrial towns of the North and Midlands, and their lives as part of the heady set of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. For Alice, the most obviously ambitious of the four, a life in India; for Georgie, a literary world, William Morris and George Eliot among her closest friends; for Agnes, a social butterfly, a world of continental travel and glittering functions; and for Louisa a life deep in the Worcestershire countryside, the wife of a wealthy industrialist. In Victorian Sisters Ina Taylor asks whether, talented in their own rights, the sisters could have broken through the restraints and conventions of their age, and to what extent they supported and even instigated success in their husbands and sons.« less