The MacDonald sisters were four women from a modest lower middle class background born in Victorian England to a Methodist minister.
Judith Flanders has written about their lives in her book A Circle of Sisters and explains how these women, denied the advantage of a traditional education or the expectation of social advancement, went on to positions at the centre of British cultural and political life.
Indeed as wives and mothers, they were to connect Painter, Edward Burne-Jones, President of the Royal Academy of Arts, Edward Poynter, Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin and Poet, Rudyard Kipling.
A Circle of Sisters: Alice Kipling, Georgiana Burne-Jones, Agnes Poynter and Louisa Baldwin (Viking Press, ISBN: 0 670 88673 4, £17.99).
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