Lady Emily Lutyens was an English theosophist and writer.
15 Facts About Emily Lutyens
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Emily Lutyens was brought up in Lisbon, India and Knebworth House, where she was educated by governesses.
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Emily Lutyens returned to England after her father's death, and fell in love with Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, 35 years her senior:.
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From 17 to 21 Emily Lutyens Lytton was the friend of the magnificent "oriental" Englishman, Wilfred Scawen Blunt.
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Emily Lutyens became the lifelong friend of Blunt's daughter, Judith.
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Emily Lutyens had five children, including Mary Lutyens, the composer Elisabeth Lutyens and the painter Robert Lutyens.
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Emily Lutyens was a visitor to the local lock hospital, a member of the Moral Education League, and a supporter of women's suffrage.
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Emily Lutyens introduced her older sister Lady Constance Bulwer-Lytton to the suffrage movement, though was herself opposed to militancy and resigned from the Women's Social and Political Union in 1909.
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Emily Lutyens became a kind of surrogate parent to the young Krishnamurti, brought back from India with his brother by Annie Besant in 1911.
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Emily Lutyens edited the theosophical journal Herald of the Star, and attracted wealthy converts to theosophy, such as Mabel Dodge.
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Emily Lutyens continued to protect and care for Krishnamurti, to whom she was devoted.
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Emily Lutyens supported Krishnamurti trying to dissolve the Theosophical Society, and in 1930 followed him in resigning from theosophy.
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Emily Lutyens died at her home in London on 3 January 1964, eight days after her 89th birthday.
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Historian Jane Ridley has noted that "Never a meat-eater, Emily Lutyens became a doctrinaire vegetarian, subsisting on nut cutlets disguised as lamb with a piece of macaroni wrapped in a paper frill instead of a bone".
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Emily Lutyens raised her children on a vegetarian diet but her husband Edwin was a meat-eater.