MacDonald sisters, daughters of George Browne MacDonald

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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.

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 Ellingham Press)

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