Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones

EW 's parents were married by Frederic William Macdonald , an uncle of Rudyard Kipling , brother of writer Louisa Baldwin , and brother-in-law of painter Edward Burne-Jones . As a wedding gift, Macdonald gave...

VW 's mother, née Julia Prinsep Jackson (1846-95), was born in India and brought to England as a toddler. She was a favourite niece (and subject) of photographer Julia Margaret Cameron , on whom...

This was one of the most popular novels of the nineteenth century. Two years after it appeared it was the favourite choice of young officers in hospital during the Crimean War. A guardsman confessed that...