The Architect and his Wife

By Margaret Richardson 2002-09-03T00:00:00

'Father is a pure artist but completely inarticulate as regards his work and something of a bore about other things.' So wrote Lady Emily Lytton to her daughter Ursula.When Edwin Lutyens died on 1 January 1944, the obituaries agreed that he was the greatest architect of his generation – but ...

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