Mary Lutyens
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Edith Penelope Mary Lutyens (1908 – 9 April 1999)[1] adalah seorang pengarang Inggris yang utamanya dikenal karena karya-karya biografi otoritatif buatannya tentang filsuf Jiddu Krishnamurti.
Kehidupan awal[sunting | sunting sumber]
Ia adalah anak keempat dan bungsu dari arsitek Edwin Lutyens, dan istrinya Emily Bulwer-Lytton. Emily merupakan putri dari Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Viceroy India, dan cucu dari novelis-anggota majelis Edward Bulwer-Lytton. Pada masa kanak-kanak, Mary menjalani waktu dengan nenek pihak ibunya Edith, mantan vicereine, yang tinggal di Knebworth yang berjarak sekitar 30 mil dari London.
Sebagai hasil dari peminatan ibunya terhadap teosofi,[2] Mary bertemu Krishnamurti saat masih kanak-kanak: ia mengenalnya dari 1911 sampai ia wafat pada 1986.
Pada 1920an, ayahnya mengerjakan gedung-gedung di Delhi. Mary mengunjungi India dengan ibunya dan datang ke Australia, singgah di The Manor, sebuah pusat yang dijalanklan oleh Charles Webster Leadbeater di Mosman, New South Wales,[3] sementara Krishnamurti dan saudaranya Nitya singgah di rumah terdekat lainnya. Lutyens singgah disana sebanyak beberapa kali, yang kemudian memberikannya bahan untuk buku buatannya Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening.[4]
Karya[sunting | sunting sumber]
- 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 Publications reprint edition 1997: 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 0-7195-3979-X, Farrar, Straus, Giroux paperback: ISBN 0-374-18224-8, Avon Books 1991 reprint with US spelling "Fulfillment": ISBN 0-380-71112-5. 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 0-7195-3777-0, 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.
- 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, 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.
Catatan[sunting | sunting sumber]
- ^ "Edith Penelope) Mary Lutyens (1909–1999)". National Portrait Gallery. Diakses tanggal 13 July 2016.
- ^ ODNB
- ^ The Theosophist (Theosophical Society), August 1997, pp. 460–463
- ^ Krishnamurti: The Years of Awakening by Mary Lutyens (John Murray), 1975, p. 202
Referensi[sunting | sunting sumber]
- 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.
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