Editing Edward Burne-Jones (section)

==Marriage and family==
[[File:Georgiana Burne-Jones by Edward Coley Burne-Jones.jpg|left|thumb|''Portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones, with Philip and Margaret'', 1883]]
[[File:Margaret, daughter of Edward Coley Burne-Jones.jpg|left|thumb|Margaret, daughter of Burne-Jones]]
In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to [[Georgiana Burne-Jones|Georgiana "Georgie" MacDonald]] (1840–1920), one of the [[MacDonald sisters]]. She was training to be a painter, and was the sister of Burne-Jones's old school friend. The couple married on 9 June 1860, after which she made her own work in [[woodcut]]s, and became a close friend of [[George Eliot]]. (Another MacDonald sister married the artist Sir [[Edward Poynter]], a further sister married the ironmaster [[Alfred Baldwin (politician)|Alfred Baldwin]] and was the mother of the Prime Minister [[Stanley Baldwin]], and yet another sister was the mother of [[Rudyard Kipling]]. Kipling and Baldwin were thus Burne-Jones's nephews by marriage).

Georgiana gave birth to a son, [[Philip Burne-Jones|Philip]], in 1861. In the winter of 1864, she became gravely ill with [[scarlet fever]] and gave birth to a second son, Christopher, who died soon thereafter. The family then moved to 41 Kensington Square, and their daughter Margaret was born there in 1866.{{sfn|Wildman|1998|p= 107}} 

In 1867 Burne-Jones and his family settled at the Grange, an 18th-century house set in a garden in [[North End, Fulham]], London. For the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a number of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair (described as the "emotional climax of his life"){{sfn|Wildman|1998|p=114}} with his Greek model [[Maria Zambaco]], which ended with her trying to commit [[suicide]] by throwing herself into [[Regent's Canal]].{{sfn|Wildman|1998|p=114}}{{sfn|Flanders|2001|pp=118–120}} 

During these difficult years, Georgiana developed a friendship with Morris, whose wife [[Jane Morris|Jane]] had fallen in love with Rossetti. Morris and Georgie may have been in love, but if he asked her to leave her husband, she refused. In the end, the Burne-Joneses remained together, as did the Morrises, but Morris and Georgiana were close for the rest of their lives.{{sfn|Flanders|2001|p=136}}

In 1880, the Burne-Joneses bought [[Prospect House, Rottingdean|Prospect House]] in [[Rottingdean]], near [[Brighton]] in Sussex, as their holiday home and soon after, the next door [[Aubrey Cottage]] to create [[North End House]], reflecting the fact that their Fulham home was in North End Road. (Years later, in 1923, [[Roderick Jones (1877–1962)|Sir Roderick Jones]], head of [[Reuters]], and his wife, playwright and novelist [[Enid Bagnold]], were to add the adjacent [[Gothic House]] to the property, which became the inspiration and setting for her play ''[[The Chalk Garden]]'').

His troubled son Philip, who became a successful portrait painter, died in 1926. His adored daughter Margaret (died 1953) married [[John William Mackail]] (1850–1945), the friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1911 to 1916. Their children were the novelists [[Angela Thirkell]] and [[Denis Mackail]], and the youngest, Clare Mackail. 

In an edition of the boys' magazine, Chums (No.&nbsp;227, Vol.&nbsp; V, 13 January 1897), an article on Burne-Jones stated that "....his pet grandson used to be punished by being sent to stand in a corner with his face to the wall. One day on being sent there, he was delighted to find the wall prettily decorated with fairies, flowers, birds, and bunnies. His indulgent grandfather had utilised his talent to alleviate the tedium of his favourite's period of penance."