MacDonald, Georgiana (1840–1920)
MacDonald, Georgiana (1840–1920)
English painter. Name variations: Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones. Born 1840; died 1920; dau. of Rev. George Macdonald (not the writer) and Hannah Macdonald; sister of Alice Macdonald (1837–1910), who was the mother of Rudyard Kipling, Agnes Macdonald (1843–1906), who married painter Edward Poynter, and Louisa Macdonald (1845–1925), who was the mother of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin; studied drawing at Government School of Design, Gore House; m. painter Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898), 1860; children: Philip Burne-Jones (1861–1926, portrait painter) and Margaret Burne-Jones Mackail (1866–1953, who m. John William Mackail); grandmother of Angela Thirkell (writer).
Worked in woodcuts and was a close friend of George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans).
See also Ina Taylor, Victorian Sisters (1987).