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Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. 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. 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 Georgiana Burne-Jones their families and the Empire, uniquely endured. Get A Copy. Hardcoverpages. Published March 1st by W. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 4. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about A Circle of Sistersplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling. More filters. Sort order. Aug 12, Sherwood Smith added it Shelves: biographyhistoryth-c. It begins quite strongly, painting a solid picture of the Methodists' perspective on the early nineteenth century, but once the sisters marry, the focus Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin to shift more to Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin men and their achievements. Two of the sisters retire to their beds as professional invalids, and nearly disappear: though Flanders warns of this in the introduction, I thought that meant there would be some digging into why, but as the book progressed, this seemed more of an excuse for leaving them out. By the end, the book is a somewhat tangled recitation of what all the descendants did, and some authorial judgments slipped in; the men have overshadowed the women. I could have used more quotations of the sisters' voices and fewer rhetorical questions, but overall, a pleasant read. Purportedly about the Macdonald sisters who married Edward Burne-Jones, Poynter, and the fathers of Kipling, and Stanley Baldwin, this was more about their husbands and sons than about themselves. In fact two of the sisters Georgiana Burne-Jones to spend most of their lives on their sick beds. There was, however, some interesting social history of the Victorian period, but the style was leaden and there was a sense that the author was determined to include all her research however tenuous. View 1 comment. Jan 29, Wealhtheow rated it did not like it Shelves: non-fictionhistoricalvictorian. A poor family headed by a Methodist minister had five surviving daughters and two sons. Of these, the four daughters who married all had husbands or sons of import, and are supposedly the focus of this book. I say supposedly because pages go by without one of them being mentioned. The vast majority of this book is actually about their various relations. From the first to the last the four sisters get A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling little attention, and in fact I came Georgiana Burne-Jones with only a vague understanding of Georgie Burne-J Georgiana Burne-Jones poor family headed by a Methodist minister had five surviving daughters and two sons. From the first to the last the four sisters get very little attention, and in fact I came away with only a vague understanding of Georgie Burne-Jones and the rest remained cyphers. After the daughters marry and start having children, they fall out of the narrative almost entirely and the book becomes more and more disorganized and scattered. Bad enough that the ostensible focus of the book is nearly ignored, but the various children and grandchildren receive very variable amounts of attention--I felt that about half this book was about Rudyard Kipling, whereas three-time Prime Minister of Britain Stan Baldwin gets literally two paragraphs to summarize his entire political career. And, icing on my hate-cake, the author has the strangest interpretations of letters and happenings that I have ever seen. She decides upon the nastiest interpretation every single time. See my status updates for examples. I am an avid reader of Flanders's work, and while I found this biography of the four sisters well-researched, I do feel that it is not her best work. Like many of the other reviewers, I found that the sisters who were ostensibly the subjects of the biography seemed to drop out of the narrative far too often, with the focus invariably turning to the husbands and children, rather than staying fixed on the women. That said, the book is clearly well-researched, with the author always willing to flag I am an avid reader of Flanders's work, and while I found this biography of the four sisters well-researched, I do feel that it is not her best work. That said, A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling book is clearly well- researched, with the author always willing Georgiana Burne-Jones flag up where there are gaps in the understanding due to the lack of source materials, sometimes because those source materials such as letters, for example have been destroyed by the family members. While the book contains a lot of interesting information, the narrative style can be a little challenging, and with a vast family A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling contend with, it sometimes became very difficult to keep track of who was who - the family tree at the start of the book was a useful and essential addition in that respect. All in all, while I A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling really loved her other books, this one was good, but not compelling. Mar 06, Liz rated it really liked it. It was interesting reading about A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling large, extended family. The book ends with a quote from one of the great grand children which I think is great: "If they were inspiring people, they were also appallingly demanding. They were, in fact, the sort of Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin that one would perhaps rather read about than belong to. Jan 13, Patcholi added it. Wonderfully written and researched. Very insightful. The only reason Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin it took me a certain time to finish this book is that I found the people portrayed in it to be so objectionable and unsympathetic albeit fascinating. Aug 03, Leonie rated it liked it Shelves: nonfictionnineteenth-century. The subject matter was interesting enough, and the writing wasn't devoid of entertainment, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin this was a little disappointing. Part of the problem is that this claims to be a biography of four sisters. It is more a biography of a much wider family milieu and Agnes and Louisa in A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling get very little space indeed. This possibly means that the project is a little misconceived and not all the sisters actually did much and there just isn't the material. But that's not really a good enough reas The subject matter was interesting enough, and the writing wasn't devoid of entertainment, but this was a little disappointing. But that's not really a good enough reason, not least because Flanders herself seems somewhat aware of it as a possible criticism: in her preface and afterward she seems to be trying to argue that the interest of Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin and relationships is as worthy of biography as lives full of action. The flaw is the execution: Flanders sucks at differentiating personality. Georgie gets the most focus, and I think even she came out clearer in Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of Burne-Jones. The other sisters really aren't distinguished from each other at all, and it sounds like there ought to be enough material to at least do that. All of them are described as being quite sharp and judgemental, and while it's interesting to talk about how a shared family culture of traits manifests, they were different people and must have had personalities beyond that. The other problem is a similar indistinctness when it comes to introducing the many other figures and what was going on in their lives: again, that Fitzgerald biography was probably more help grounding me than this book itself. Jan 05, Suzanne rated it it was amazing. Absolutely fascinating. Wonderfully readable, the text draws you into Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin world of the MacDonald sisters, with Georgiana Burne Jones's ineractions with the Pre-Raphaelite circle most interesting of all. Dec 18, Brenda Clough rated it Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin liked it. A linked biography of the sisters, which goes deeply into the things a Victorian woman could and could not do. Jan 06, Sarah Boothroyd rated it it was ok. Full of interesting information; I didn't care for the occasionally sneering tone. Oct 19, Moya Smith rated it really liked it. This biography is the story of four McDonald sisters who through their marriages were intimately connected with four famous Victorian men. The writer has a curious lack of feminist awareness about the position of women in the Victorian period. She is aware that these four sisters are Georgiana Burne-Jones only because of the men they married. Their lives might have been very different This biography is the story of four McDonald sisters who through their marriages were intimately connected with four famous Victorian men. Their lives might have been very different if they had lived in the late 20th century. However, the book gives a fascinating look into the typical life of Victorian woman restricted by their lack of equality. They have no vote, no divorce, no legal rights and no income outside that of their husbands. One or two were the centre of family life while others suffered on-going and unexplained illnesses. The author covers the cases of insanity Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin their families, as well as the depressions, eating disorders, and other ailments. In spite of the lack of freedom in the lives of these Victorian women, all four established Victorian "dynasties" which are presented over the next two generations. A fascinating insight into the lives of Victorian wives. Interesting I read this book initially years ago, and was fascinated by the rise of these sisters from a very modest beginning to the highest ranks of society. As the author points out, they inhabited a time when ability was beginning to matter, not just birth. On re-reading it, I was struck again by the glimpses into the social mores of this changing era, and especially the role of women. The Kissed Mouth: Enough Love to Last Out a Long Life

Georgiana has always confused me so much by not being the daughter of the author George MacDonald, even though his book 'The vicar's Daughter' seems to describe the daughter as marrying a pre-Raphaelite! Have you any insight into this? Ah, I see the confusion as her father was called George MacDonald too! The author MacDonald moved in the same circles, being a close friend of Ruskin and Lewis Carroll and so would have known the Burne-Jones family. The use of the Pre-Raphaelite woman would have been an obvious choice for him, and it's interesting seeing it used so early for The Vicar's Daughter. It would be interesting also to hear of a Pre-Raphaelite Woman character based on someone other than Jane Morris. Many thanks for your comments! Dear Kirsty Thank you for another interesting post. I have just read the book about Burne-Jones and May Gaskell by Josceline Dimbleby, but I don't remember reading that there was a child from this relationship. The letters to May are passionate and there is no doubt her marriage was unhappy and that she was a beautiful woman, but I got the feeling from the book that she held Burne-Jones at arm's length, due to social conventions. Have I misread the book, or is there evidence from another source? I Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin be really interested to find out. I think I need to read the book again! Best wishes Ellie. I always thought an excellent Pre-Rapahaelite novel would be seeing A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling entire movement through the eyes of Georgie Burne-Jones, who was a quiet, intelligent observer of all the triumph and tragedy. I would really like to know more about her. I love the drawing Ned did of her studying at the long table covered with books. Thanks for your comments. I'm sure I read a piece that implied that the relationship between May and EBJ went further than just a flirtation to the point of a child but now cannot find it! EBJs relationship with his young ladies is such a difficult one and must A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling caused Georgie no end of grief Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin he seems to have been such an object of fascination for them all. Nice post,I have just been to Kelmscott Manor and loved ,the village too. I Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin also read A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling latest biog of Burne Jones and the Dimbleby book about May gaskell. There are some photos and a bit about our break at Kelmscott on my blog. Thanks Angela. Thanks for all your comments! Living down in Truro it is not that easy to get to places but we shall go back again. Like your posts very much. I've always been fascinated by Georgie and the triangle between her, Ned and Mary Zambaco Thank you for this lovely post! I didn't know about Ned's relationship with the girls I do love the photograph of her from and 'Green Summer' is lovely! Have read much of your site but not commented before. Very enjoyable, a small window to a fascinating time. Thank you! There is a Georgiana Burne-Jones connection here. However, his mother wanted her son to receive a formal British education so, when he was 6, she sent him to Southsea, Hants, where he lived in Campbell Road with a foster family named Holloway. Holloway was a brutal woman who constantly beat and bullied the boy. Consequently, Kipling A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling at school. Despite suffering this wretched existence he told nobody of his problems; his only respite came in the December, when he traveled to Fulham, and stayed with relatives for a month during the Christmas holidays. The point to all this is that Kipling regarded his time with the Burne-Joneses to have been the happiest of his childhood. In fact he had only felt truly safe and secure when he had reached their home and had hold of the bell pull. However, they sold him the bell pull and he had it installed at his home at Burwash in Sussex where it remains today. To his delight he spent more time with his aunt Georgiana. When I spoke to a local about it he thought it concerned a A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling who makes exceedingly good cakes. I have a few relatives who live in the Wirrall which is useful as it allows me the A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling to visit the Lady Lever gallery. During one visit in I was present when they were, for some reason, moving "The Beguiling of Merlin" and this was done with the help of a mechanical hoist. Until then I'd had no idea just how big a canvas that was. Thank you for comments Tony. I work in Portsmouth and didn't realise that connection, how fascinating! Yes, that canvas is a whopper! I love seeing paintings in real life as sometimes it can be a real surprise, can't it? I was at Bateman's last year and didn't think to put my hand on the bell-pull. Many thanks for your comment. I shall post it up shortly! I've had an interesting weekend of pursuing various matters to do with Edward Burne- Jones, which is Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin a pleasure. I am very much looking forward to going up to Liverpool this summer to see the exhibition at the Lady Lever Gallery and part of me is hoping that I will learn a little more about the artist and his wife. I am beginning to find Georgiana rather fascinating, not least because it is through her that we have the Memorialshis biography which he feared so much, hence the reason he entrusted it to Georgiana. After all, Edward Burne-Jones had no greater supporter. To state the obvious, these were astonishingly smart women in their own right and from the sisters, Agnes, Georgiana, Louisa and Alice we have Kiplings, Baldwins and marriages to Edward Burne-Jones and Edward Poynter. That is being connected. Harry MacDonald, Georgie's brother, attended King Edward's School which made him part of an artistic set to which he introduced his sisters. Among his fellow students was Edward or 'Ned' Jones, who was destined for the church. Georgie and Ned fell in love when she was barely a teenager and there was already an attachment between them when the MacDonalds moved to London inwhen Georgie was A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling Moving down to university, Ned had a fateful meeting with a fellow Oxford undergraduate, William Morris, and the young men decided to alter their course from church to easel. Georgie inat the time of her engagement Georgie's friendship with Ned led to an engagement when she was 15, although Ned who had adopted 'Burne' to his surname had little prospect of marrying her, which caused both of them distress. Georgie's support of her fiancee brought her into the Pre-Raphaelite circle, including the great John Ruskin, an experience that affected her deeply, as she said " I wish it were possible to explain the impression made upon me as a young girl whose experience so far had been quite remote from art, by sudden and close intercourse with those to whom it was the breath of life I felt in the presence of a new religion. Very little of her work seems to exist, which is a shame as she showed talent and delicacy in her work. Summers were spent with William and his new Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin Jane, in somewhat more affluent surroundings, and with Georgie's married sisters and their families. I think Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin it is interesting how singular she looks, that even amongst this circle of talented women his wife is exceptional. Part of what made her so special in his eyes had been the trials they Georgiana Burne-Jones been through in the first few years of their Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin. Georgie had given birth to Philip in the Autumn of but in the summer ofPhilip caught scarlet fever, passing it to his pregnant mother. Georgie gave premature birth to their second son Christopher, who died soon afterwards. Georgie was ill for Georgiana Burne-Jones time afterwards, then refused to return to the A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling where Christopher had died. By showing Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin in black, Ned may have been alluding to their tragedy, but I feel that the other women are listening to her because Ned feels she has gained wisdom from her experiences, however painfully won. Ned's affair with Maria caused his wife a great amount of pain, yet somehow she clung to the faith he would not leave her entirely, " I know one thing, and that is that there is enough love between Edward and me to last out a long life if it is given us". That faith must have been greatly shaken by the very public event of A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling attempted suicide, Georgiana Burne-Jones somehow the Burne-Jones family remained intact. Under such circumstances, it is unsurprising that Georgie became close to William Morris. Already like family due to the 'brotherhood' shared by Ned and William, when their spouses strayed Georgie and William had an added bond which was to last for the rest of their lives. It is suggested that Morris' poetry of the late s and s suggests that he wanted her to leave Ned for him, but steadfastly she remained by Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin erring husbands side. The families spend time together again, like they had in the early years of their marriages, and photographs exist of summers at Kelmscott in the s. The Burne-Jones family move from London to Rottingdean in Sussex in seems to mark a break from the trouble and interference of London. Rossetti's death in affected Ned greatly but Georgiana found their more 'isolated' life in the village suited her and enabled her to get involved in matters back in London, such as the South London Fine Art Gallery which brought fine art education to the working-classes, but from a safe distance. Although Burne-Jones strayed again in the early s with Georgiana Burne-Jones of his daughter's friends, May Gaskell, Ned's relationships with the many young women who went in and out of the Burne-Jones home never went beyond flirtation. Georgiana must have remained ever watchful of the young girls who came, giggling, to view the artist, growing increasing white and wistful, but everso full of romance. Ned maintained a spirit of other-worldliness, his attachment to his daughter and some of her circle boardering on a mania at times. Although he could not bare to be parted from Margaret, his obvious pleasure at being a grandfather is so touching in the photographs of him with the tiny children, climbing him Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin an old but sprightly tree Against her wishes and in the face of ridicule from some of their closest friends, Georgiana found herself Lady Burne-Jones when Ned accepted a baronetcy inmainly to enable his son to inherit the title. I find the lack of support shown by their friends to be astonishing, but possibly all bad feeling was lost in the wake of Morris' death in Ned declined in health until his own death A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling two years later. Alone in Rottingdean, Georgie became more intellectually active than ever. After the Relief of Mafeking, she hung a banner from the windows of her house saying "We have killed and also take possession". Her nephew Rudyard Kipling had to persuade her to take it down in order to pacify the outraged villagers. She finally died in at the age of Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin, who became a painter like his father, died in and Margaret, who was the mother of the A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling Angela Thirkell and Denis Mackail the children in the photo with their grandfather, above died in Despite, or maybe because of the feyness Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin flirtation of her husband, Georgiana Burne-Jones remains one of those figures who had to be the still place amongst Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin madness. I get the impression that because of Georgie's stability, Ned could drift away, but you have to wonder at the cost to his wife. Certainly she kept an iron grip on his memory A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling the twentieth century, honoring his wishes with a Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin spirit. I would like to know more about Georgie because I suspect there is more to know.