MacDonald sisters, daughters of George Browne MacDonald
- MacDonald sisters, daughters of George Browne MacDonald
:"For the MacDonald sisters, artist members of" The Four", see Glasgow School."The MacDonald sisters were four daughters of English Methodist minister George Browne MacDonald (1805-1868) known for their marriages to well-known people:
*Alice (1837-1910) married John Lockwood Kipling, and was the mother of Rudyard Kipling.
*Georgiana (1840-1920) married the pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones. She became the mother-in-law of John William Mackail and grandmother of Angela Thirkell.
*Agnes (1843-1906) married the president of the Royal Academy Edward Poynter.
*Louisa (1845-1925) married the industrialist Alfred Baldwin and was the mother of prime minister Stanley Baldwin, and grandmother to Oliver Baldwin. Louisa wrote novels, short stories, and poetry, sometimes using the pseudonym "Mrs. Alfred Baldwin." [cite web |url=http://www.litgothic.com/Authors/lbaldwin.html |title=Baldwin, Louisa |accessdate=2008-06-04] [isfdb name|id=Louisa%20Baldwin |name=Louisa Baldwin] [isfdb name|id=Mrs.%20Alfred%20Baldwin |name=Mrs. Alfred Baldwin]
There was another daughter, Edith (1848-1937), who didn't marry at all; she lived at home until her mother's death, and with Louisa after that.
Further reading
*Judith Flanders. "A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne Jones, Agnes Poynter, and Louisa Baldwin". ISBN 0-393-05210-9
*Ina Taylor. "Victorian Sisters". (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1987) (Shortly to be republished by [http://www.ellinghampress.co.uk Ellingham Press] )
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