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Although starting life among the ranks of the lower-middle classes, with little prospect of social advancement, the Macdonald sisters became wives to the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Byrne-Jones, and Edward Poynter, President of the Royal Academy, and mothers to the Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin, and the poet, Rudyard Kipling. In telling their remarkable story, Judith Flanders displays the fluidity of Victorian society, and explores the life of the family in the 19th century. Good sales in hardback. |
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