1st Edition

The Elmhirsts of Dartington

By Michael Young Copyright 1982
410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

410 Pages
by Routledge

Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington - she the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to Rabindranath Tagore in Bengal before he married Dorothy. They were the twentieth century’s most substantial private patrons of architecture in England as well as of the arts and education. Dartington... Read more

1. Introduction  2. The Englishman  3. The American  4. Together  5. The English Experiment  6. To the Totnes Station  7. Microcosm  8. The Larger Spirit that Infuses All Life  9. A New Day for the Arts  10. Town – Country  11. Cultivation of the Land  12. Revival of Rural Industry  13. Retrospect.  Family Trees.  Sources and Notes.  Index.

Biography

Michael Young