A Circle of Sisters
Judith Flanders
The four Macdonald sisters, born into a modest Victorian family, became the mother of Rudyard Kipling (Alice), the wife of Byrne-Jones (Georgie), the mother of Stanley Baldwin (Agnes) and the wife of Edward Poynter (Louisa). This immediate and intimate biography ranges from the domestic minutiae and intellectual frustrations of women's lives in the 19th century to the grand sweep of change as Britain moved towards meritocracy.
