Mary Lutyens

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Mary Lutyens (1908–1999) was an author who wrote an authoritative biography on Jiddu Krishnamurti.

She was the daughter of Edwin Landseer Lutyens, an architect and his wife Emily Bulwer-Lytton. Emily was the granddaughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

Her other books include The Lyttons in India, Effie in Venice (editor), and Millais and the Ruskins (editor). She also wrote biographies of John Ruskin, Effie Gray and her father, British architect Edwin Lutyens.

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

[edit] Works

• Perchance to Dream, London: John Murray, 1935
• Effie in Venice: Effie Ruskin's Letter 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