Alice Caroline Kipling (4 April 1837 – 22 November 1910) was one of the MacDonald sisters, Englishwomen of the Victorian era, four of whom were notable for their contribution to the arts and their marriages to well-known men.
She was described as: "...slender, pale complexion, dark brown hair and grey eyes, with black lashes and delicately pencilled eyebrows.
Harry Ricketts in his biography of Rudyard Kipling wrote of Alice that she: "...was lively, witty and talented; in a Jane Austen novel she would have been called accomplished.
Her poems showed another side, revealing a deep strain of melancholy..."[9] In January 1865, John Lockwood Kipling was made Architectural Sculptor and Professor of Modelling at the School of Art and Industry in Bombay.
[14] She died at age 73 in November 1910, three days after suffering a heart attack[15] and is buried beside her husband in the churchyard of St John the Baptist in Tisbury in Wiltshire, England.