A Circle of Sisters - Hardcover

Flanders, J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393052109 ISBN 13: 9780393052107

Verlag: WW Norton & Co, 2005

Inhaltsangabe

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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"Drive[s] a four-horse chariot through the nineteenth century.... I have enjoyed this book more than I can say."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: WW Norton & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0393052109
• ISBN 13: 9780393052107
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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