Georgiana Burne-Jones

Georgiana Burne-Jones
Georgiana Burne-Jones, née MacDonald c.1882, photographed by Frederick Hollyer
Born
Georgiana MacDonald

21 July 1840
Died2 February 1920(1920-02-02) (aged 79)
NationalityBritish
MovementPre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts Movement
Spouse
(m. 1860; died 1898)

Georgiana, Lady Burne-Jones (née MacDonald; 21 July 1840 – 2 February 1920) was a British painter and engraver, and the second oldest of the MacDonald sisters. She was married to the Late Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones, and was also the mother of painter Philip Burne-Jones, aunt of novelist Rudyard Kipling and Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, confidante and friend of George Eliot, William Morris, and John Ruskin. She was a Trustee of the South London Gallery and was elected to the parish Council of Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex.

She is known for the biography of her husband, The Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones and for publishing his Flower Book. She became the mother-in-law of John William Mackail, who married her daughter Margaret. Their children were the novelists Angela Thirkell, Denis Mackail and Clare Mackail.