Georgiana Burne Jones Part I

Georgiana Burne Jones (nee Macdonald) was born in 1840 to a Scottish family who were intellectual and broad minded.  Her father was a Wesleyan minister... and one of her brother was an artist.  There were several sisters who married into the elite of the intellectual and artistic community of Victorian England. 

Alice, the eldest, married John Lockwood Kipling a professor, and became the mother of Rudyard Kipling.   Louisa married a businessman, Alfred Baldwin and was the mother of a Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin….Agnes married the painter Edward Poynter….

Georgiana married Edward (Ned) Burne Jones, one of the most famous Post Raphaelite painters.   She met him through her brother Harry..

Georgiana was an intelligent talented woman who was born a bit too early to make direct use of her talents.  She met with Ruskin as a girl and was influenced by his ideas about art and society… she and Edward married when she was only 19 and he was 27.  They had little money but were both more interested in the intellectual and Bohemian life... not caring about houses or fortunes.  Georgiana hoped to become an artist in her own right, although at the time, women who had an artistic bent, would usually content themselves with supporting their husbands in practical ways…They lived at first in rooms in Russell Street, and were close friends with William Morris and his young wife Janey.. who lived nearby…

Georgiana (Georgie) was eager to pursue her interest in painting and engraving... but she soon became pregnant.  Her first baby was a son, Philip..