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British writer

For her aunt of the same name, see Mary Wemyss.

Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (pseudonymEsther 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 London, the fourth and youngest daughter of the architect Edwin Lutyens, and his wife, Emily, the daughter of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India, and the granddaughter of the writer and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.

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Mary was the younger sister of the composer Elisabeth Lutyens, and aunt of the 4th Viscount Ridley and the politician Nicholas Ridley.

As a child, Lutyens spent time with her maternal grandmother Edith, the former vicereine, who lived at Knebworth, thirty miles from London, with her daughter the suffragette Constance Bulwer-Lytton.

Edwin Lutyens had designed a dower house for his mother-in-l