Surname: MacDonald Forename(s): Alice Caroline b. 4 April 1837. d. 23 November 1910. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet. Mother of Rudyard Kipling. Born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. Married John
Lockwood Kipling on 18 March 1865. Lived in India from 1865-1893, returning to England
only rarely. Author of the poetry volumes Quartette (1885) and Hand in Hand: Verses by a Mother and a Daughter (1901), the latter of which was a collaboration with her daughter Alice. Biographical
information: “Macdonald sisters,” ODNB; BL. (CC, JS)