Mary Lutyens
Mary Lutyens | |
|---|---|
Romantic fiction | |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 1 daughter |
| Parents | Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton |
| Relatives | Elisabeth Lutyens (sister) Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley (nephew) Nicholas Ridley (nephew) |
Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (pseudonym Esther Wyndham; 31 July 1908 – 9 April 1999)[3] was a British author who is principally known for her biographical works on the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Early life
Mary Lutyens was born in
As a child, Lutyens spent time with her maternal grandmother
As a result of her mother's interest in
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In the 1920s, her father was working on his
Career
Apart from her works on Krishnamurti, Lutyens wrote biographies of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and her own family. In her book Millais and the Ruskins she put forward the controversial argument that Ruskin could not consummate his marriage because he was repelled by his wife's pubic hair.[6]
She wrote novels under the pseudonym "Esther Wyndham" for the
Personal life
Lutyens married twice. Her first marriage, in 1930, to Anthony Rupert Herbert Franklin Sewell, a stockbroker, produced one daughter, Amanda Lutyens Sewell, but ended in divorce in 1945. Her second marriage, in 1945, was to Joseph Gluckstein Links, art historian and royal furrier, and ended with his death in 1997.
Works
- Perchance to Dream, London: John Murray, 1935.
- To be young : some chapters of autobiography, London: R. Hart-Davies, 1959 ISBN 9780552993364
- 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.
- Cleo, London: Michael Joseph, 1973.
- Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening, London: John Murray, 1975, ISBN 1-57062-288-4. First installment of a three-volume biography, covers the period from Krishnamurti's birth in 1895 to 1933.
- Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfilment, London: John Murray, 1983, ISBN 0-380-71112-5. Second volume of the Krishnamurti biography, covers the years from 1933 to 1980.
- Krishnamurti: The Open Door, London: John Murray, 1988, ISBN 0-7195-4534-X. Final volume of biography covers years 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 0-552-99417-0.
- The Life and Death of Krishnamurti, London: John Murray, 1990, ISBN 0-312-05455-6, an abridgement of her trilogy on Krishnamurti's life.
- The Boy Krishna, 1995, Krishnamurti Foundation Trust paperback: ISBN 0-900506-13-X. Subtitled, "The First Fourteen Years in the Life of J. Krishnamurti".
- Krishnamurti and the Rajagopals, 1996, 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.
References
- ^ a b Lutyens, (Edith Penelope). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Subscription or membership of a UK public library required.
- ^ a b c Anderson, S. "Obituary: Mary Lutyens".
- ^ "(Edith Penelope) Mary Lutyens (1909–1999)". National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 July 2016.
- ^ The Theosophist (Theosophical Society), August 1997, pp. 460–463
- ^ Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening by Mary Lutyens (John Murray), 1975, p. 202
- ^ Lutyens, M. (1967), Millais and the Ruskins, p. 191
- OCLC 30162059.
Sources
- 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.
