Main entry:

Ridley, Jane.

Title & Author:

The architect and his wife : a life of Edwin Lutyens / Jane Ridley.

Publication:

London : Chatto & Windus, 2002.

Description:

xii, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 420-462) and index.
Ch. 1. 16 Onslow Square 1869-1876 -- Ch. 2. Surrey 1876-1887 -- Ch. 3. Ernest George versus Gertrude Jekyll 1887-1892 -- Ch. 4. Munstead Wood and Barbara Webb 1892-1896 -- Ch. 5. Emily and the Lyttons 1896 -- Ch. 6. Engagement 1896-1897 -- Ch. 7. 29 Bloomsbury Square 1897-1900 -- Ch. 8. Country Life 1901-1905 -- Ch. 9. The Turn to Classicism 1906-1910 -- Ch. 10. 'The Shoreless Sea' 1910-1911 -- Ch. 11. India 1912-1913 -- Ch. 12. East and West 1913-1919 -- Ch. 13. 31 Bedford Square 1914-1916 -- Ch. 14. MacSack 1916-1920 -- Ch. 15. The Dolls' House 1920-1924 -- Ch. 16. Emily's Great Adventure 1924-1925 -- Ch. 17. The Elemental Mode 1926-1931 -- Ch. 18. The Torch of Humanism 1931-1937 -- Ch. 19. Lord Cough of Cough 1937-1944.
Also issued online.

Summary:

"The work of Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) includes the Cenotaph in Whitehall, much of Imperial New Delhi and especially his masterpiece, Viceroy's House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan), Queen Mary's dolls' house and Hampstead Garden Suburb. But his greatest heritage is the traditional Edwardian country house, an architectural style he made his own, using local materials and often working with Gertrude Jekyll who planted the gardens for his family homes." "This is a full biography of a witty, complex personality, a man who had little formal education, who loved jokes and hated growing up. It is also a portrait of an extraordinary marriage. His wife, Emily, fell in love with Krishnamurti, 21 years her junior and believed to be the reincarnation of a god, and she thereafter spent her time and her husband's money promoting Theosophy, a Hindu-inspired cult. Lutyens's failure to find a common language with Emily possibly drove him to achieve the remarkable communication through the language of architecture which characterises his best work."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0701172010 (hardcover)
9780701172015 (hardcover)

Subject:

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944.
Lutyens, Emily, Lady, 1874-1964.
Architects England Biography.
Architects' spouses England Biography.
Architectes Angleterre Biographies.
Architectes Conjoints Angleterre Biographies.
Architects
Architects' spouses
England

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Lutyens, Edwin Landseer, Sir, 1869-1944.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 223251
Call No.: NA44.L974.9 R5 2002
Status: Available