Mary Lutyens

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Edith Mary Lutyens (1908–9 April 1999) was a British author who wrote an authoritative biography of Jiddu Krishnamurti.

She was the fourth and youngest daughter of the architect Edwin Lutyens, and his wife Emily Bulwer-Lytton, granddaughter of the novelist-peer Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

She also wrote a number of novels, and biographies of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and her own father.

Mary Lutyens was acquainted with Krishnamurti from 1911 until his death in 1986.

[edit] Personal life

Mary Lutyens married twice. Her first marriage, in 1930, to Anthony Rupert Herbert Franklin Sewell, a stockbroker, produced one daughter, Amanda Lutyens, but ended in divorce in 1945. Her second marriage, in 1945, was to the J. G. Links, art historian and royal furrier, and ended with his death in 1997.

[edit] Works

• Perchance to Dream, London: John Murray, 1935
• Effie in Venice: Effie Ruskin's Letters Home 1849-1852, London: John Murray, 1965, Pallas Athene (UK), 2001 edition: ISBN 1-873429-33-9
• Millais and the Ruskins, London: John Murray, 1967, Vanguard Press in USA
• Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening, London: John Murray, 1975, Shambhala reprint edition 1997: ISBN 1-57062-288-4 (covers 1895 to 1935)
• Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment, London: John Murray, 1983, ISBN 0-7195-3979-X, Farrar, Straus, Giroux paperback: ISBN 0-374-18224-8, Avon Books 1991 reprint with US spelling "Fulfillment": ISBN 0-380-71112-5 (covers 1935 to 1980)
• The Open Door, London: John Murray, 1988, ISBN 0-7195-4534-X, (covers 1980 to 1986, the end of Krishnamurti's life)
• The Lyttons in India: An account of Lord Lytton's Viceroyalty, 1876-1880 London: John Murray, 1979, ISBN 0-7195-3677-4
• Edwin Lutyens: A Memoir, Academic Pr Canada Ltd, 1980, ISBN 0-7195-3777-0, Black Swan, 1991 revised edition: ISBN 0-552-99417-0
• The Life and Death of Krishnamurti, London: John Murray, 1990, ISBN 0-7195-4749-0, Nesma Books India 1999: ISBN 81-87075-44-9, ISBN 0-900506-22-9, also published as Krishnamurti: His Life and Death, St Martins Press 1991: ISBN 0-312-05455-6, an abridgement of her trilogy on Krishnamurti's life
• Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals, 1996, Ojai, CA: Krishnamurti Foundation of America, ISBN 1-888004-08-8
• J. Krishnamurti: A Life, 2005, Penguin Books India, ISBN 0-14-400006-7, this book is a compilation of The Years of Awakening, The Years of Fulfilment, and The Open Door.

[edit] References

• Sarah Anderson. Obituary: Mary Lutyens The Independent, 13 April 1999.
• Eric Page. Obituary: Mary Lutyens, English Editor, Novelist and Biographer, 90 The New York Times, 17 April 1999.