Author: Lutyens, Mary
Title: To Be Young: a Memoir of Childhood and Young Love by the Daughter of the Great Edwardian Architect, Sir Edward Lutyens
Description: Corgi/Transworld, London, 1989. First Paperback Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780552993364 'Miss Lutyens's youth was a strange blend of early 20th century upper-class cosiness and peripatetic theosophy ... Her mother ... had a good deal to do with the upbringing of Krishnamurti, the young Hindu whom the theosophists had chosen as their Messiah elect, and his more active brother, Nitya, with whom Mary Lutyens was deeply in love from the age of about fourteen onwards... Her account of her adolescent passion for Nitya ... is distinctly moving; and she gives you very distinct characterisations of both brothers ... also of her own father, the architect, whose patience was often strained by the theosophical preoccupations of his spouse' Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 192 pages. No Dust Jacket as published. White titles spine. illustrated by b/w. photo's.. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 250 grams. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Theosophy; Krishnamurti; Edwardian Era; 1900-1920; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0552993360. ISBN/EAN: 9780552993364. Inventory No: 5207.

Keywords: BZDB227 Biography & Autobiography/Edwardian Era/Jiddu Krishnamurti/Nitya/Theosophy/Edward Lutyens Biography & Autobiography; Theosophy; Krishnamurti; Edwardian Era; 1900-1920; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded ISBN: 0552993360 EAN: 9780552993364 Mary


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