Georgiana Burne Jones III

Morris had been very hurt by Janey’s relationship with Rossetti, and seems to have found comfort in a loving romantic friendship with Georgie.  Edward Burne Jones was an increasingly successful painter.. (he had adopted the "Burne" in order to distinguish himself from the thousands of Joneses...)
In later life, he had a close friendship with May Gaskell, a married society hostess who was many years his junior.  Georgiana was interested in politics and increasingly liberal or left wing in her beliefs.  Edward agreed with her ideas in some respects but he was not politically inclined and was less puritanical than his wife...So he didn't want to participate in her political interests.

  Morris on the other hand was an ardent socialist and Georgie grew closer to him because of this.  She had been involved in various progressive causes, including education of the working class.  In the 1890s, she won a seat in the parish council at Rottingdean and worked hard to improve the lives of people in the area, such as the provision of a nurse for the village…

.  She had abandoned her artistic career but was happy to have this opportunity as a woman in the 1890s… Times were changing and women while they did not have the vote for parliament, could enter local politics.

Edward had been offered  a baronetcy, and he accepted it because although he was not greatly concerned with such things, his son was fond of society and it would please him….

In 1896, William Morris died.  Both Edward and Georgie were deeply saddened as Morris was an old and dear friend….Two years later, Burne Jones was taken ill and died of a heart attack…Georgie wrote a biography of him, which was published some years later…

As she grew older, her politics became more radical.. and she was not in favour of the Boer War.. She continued with her work and died in 1920.  She left 2 children, Philip who became an artist and Margaret who married  a writer and had 2 children, one of whom was the novelist Angela Thirkell....