A Circle of Sisters
Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
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THE MACDONALD SISTERS--Alice, Georgiana, Agnes, and Louisa--started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. 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. Georgiana and Alice 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. "A Circle of Sisters brings to life four women living at a privileged moment in history. Their progress from obscurity to imperial grandeur indicates the vitality of nineteenth-century Britain: a society abundant with possibility. From their homes in India, America, and England, the sisters formed a network that, through the triumphs and tragedies of their families and the Empire, uniquely endured.
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A Circle of Sisters, Judith Flanders
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- Rok vydání
- 2001
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- 149 Kč
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- Titul
- A Circle of Sisters
- Podtitul
- Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- Judith Flanders
- Vydavatel
- Viking
- Rok vydání
- 2001
- Vazba
- pevná
- Počet stran
- 416
- ISBN10
- 0670886734
- ISBN13
- 9780670886739
- Série
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Umění, Evropa, 19. století, Velká Británie, Historie Evropy, Sestry, Viktoriánská doba
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- THE MACDONALD SISTERS--Alice, Georgiana, Agnes, and Louisa--started life in the teeming ranks of the lower-middle classes, denied the advantages of education and the expectation of social advancement. 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. Georgiana and Alice 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. "A Circle of Sisters brings to life four women living at a privileged moment in history. Their progress from obscurity to imperial grandeur indicates the vitality of nineteenth-century Britain: a society abundant with possibility. From their homes in India, America, and England, the sisters formed a network that, through the triumphs and tragedies of their families and the Empire, uniquely endured.