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To Be Young

by Mary Lutyens · 1959

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A memoir of childhood and young love by the daughter of Sir Edward Lutyens, the great Edwardian architect.

Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
Themes
childhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of this
Setting
IndiaIndiaMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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