A Blessed Girl..
Bound in original grey cloth with contrasting blue title, gilt in Pictorial dust wrapper with chips at head and tail of spine, which is sunned. Extremities a little worn and spine sunned but otherwise a very good copy. Signed letter from author to Mr Vaisey, 1953 loosely inserted.
£45.00
Details
INCLUDES AUTOGRAPH LETTER OF AUTHOR
Publisher
Rupert Hart-Davis, Soho Square.,
Place
London
Date
1955
Synopsis
Memoirs of a victorian girlhood chronicled in an exchange of letters 1887-1896.
Item Description
8vo. 6 x 8.75 inches. x + 340 pp.
Illustrations
Illustrated by 7 photographic plates, including portrait frontispiece.
Notes
The childhood and youth, to the age of twenty three of Lady Emily Lutyens (née Lytton) largely chronicled in letters to to an old family friend, the Rev. Whitworth Elwin. She was the granddaughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the novelist, the daughter of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Viceroy of India, 1876-80 and married Edwin Lutyens, the architect in 1897. In later life her principal interest was theosophy and eastern religions. This copy includes an autograph letter from the author.
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