Emily Lutyens

Lady Emily Lutyens (; 26 December 1874 – 3 January 1964) was an English theosophist and writer.

Life Emily Lytton was born on 26 December 1874 in Paris, the daughter of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Baron of Lytton (later the 1st Earl of Lytton) and Edith Villiers. She was brought up in Lisbon, India (where her father was Viceroy from 1876 to 1880) and Knebworth House, where she was educated by governesses.

She became the lifelong friend of Blunt's daughter, Judith (later Baroness Wentworth). She had five children, including Mary Lutyens, the composer Elisabeth Lutyens, the social worker Ursula Ridley, Viscountess Ridley, and the painter Robert Lutyens. She 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. Appointed by Besant as the English representative of the Order of the Star in the East, Lutyens toured the country lecturing on behalf of theosophy. She edited the theosophical journal Herald of the Star, and attracted wealthy converts to theosophy, such as Mabel Dodge. Elisabeth talks about her mother's relationship with theosophy, her time in India, relationships with other family members, her disapproval of suffragette militancy, and lesbianism in the suffragette movement. Mary's interview includes Emily's influence over her brother, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, as regards Home Rule in India.

She died at her home in London on 3 January 1964, eight days after her 89th birthday. Lutyens also raised her children on a vegetarian diet but her husband Edwin was a meat-eater.

Selected publications The Faith Catholic: Some Thoughts on the Athanasian Creed, 1918 Theosophy as the Basic Unity of National Life. Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Forty-Ninth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1924, 1925 The Call of the Mother, 1926 A Blessed Girl: Memoirs of a Victorian Girlhood Chronicled in an Exchange of Letters, 1887-1896, 1953 The Birth of Rowland: an Exchange of Letters in 1865 between Robert Lytton and His Wife, 1956 Candles in the Sun, 1957, with Mary Lutyens