![]() ![]() ![]() The Victorian age is both recent and unimaginably distant. The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th century men and women. From their homes in India and England, the sisters formed a network that, through the triumphs and tragedies of their families and the Empire, uniquely endured. Their progress from obscurity to imperial grandeur indicates the vitality of 19th century Britain: a society abundant with possibility. A Circle of Sisters brings to life four women living at a privileged moment in history. Georgiana and Agnes married, respectively, the pre Raphaelite painter Edward Burne Jones and the arts administrator Edward Poynter Louisa gave birth to future prime minister Stanley Baldwin, and Alice was mother to Rudyard Kipling. Yet as wives and mothers they would connect a famous painter, a president of the Royal Academy, a prime minister, and the uncrowned poet laureate of the Empire. I have enjoyed this book more than I can say.’ John Julius Norwich The Macdonald sisters Alice, Georgiana, Agnes and Louisa started life in the teeming ranks of the lower middle clas*ses, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. ![]() ‘Drive’s a four horse chariot through the nineteenth century… ![]()
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