Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Una Troubridge
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Standard Name: Troubridge, Una
Birth Name: Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor
Nickname: Una
Self-constructed Name: Vincenzo
Married Name: Margot Elena Gertrude Troubridge
Titled: Margot Elena Gertrude, Lady Troubridge
Titled: Una Vincenzo, Lady Troubridge
Twentieth-century translator and biographer UT
is best remembered for her numerous translations from the French and Italian, and for her biography of her lover of twenty-eight years, the writer Radclyffe Hall
. UT
also published papers on Spiritualism for the Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research of which she was a member. She kept a daily diary throughout her life.
Structured as a monthly chronicle, Ladies Almanack is a satiric lesbian cosmology based on Natalie Barney
and her circle in Paris. Among its characters are Patience Scalpel, based on Mina Loy
, Lady Buck-and-Balk and...
Textual Production
Colette
Una Troubridge
and Enid McLeod
published My Mother's House; and Sido, a translation of both La Maison de Claudine and Colette
's book about her mother, Sido (1930).
Norell, Donna M. Colette: An Annotated Primary and Secondary Bibliography. Garland.
62
Performance of text
Colette
She was revising the novel at Rozven in Brittany (near St Malo) in July 1919.
Colette,. Lettres à Sa Fille, 1916-1953. Editor Jouvenel, Anne de, Gallimard.
29n1
A pocket edition appeared from a different publisher the same year.
There had by this date been one collected edition of her works in French; two more followed by the end of the twentieth century. The edition in English ran to 17 volumes. Other translators were...
Leisure and Society
Edith Craig
Radclyffe Hall
and Una Troubridge
, who lived nearby, were among those who attended the Barn Theatre
performances.
In the early 1930s—when the persecution of lesbians in general and Radclyffe Hall
in particular was raging in the wake of The Well of Loneliness trial—EC
, Christopher St John
, and Clare Atwood
Family and Intimate relationships
Radclyffe Hall
RH
met Una Troubridge
(the second of her three long-term lovers) at the home of Ladye
's sister (following a brief and inconsequential meeting three years earlier); they thereafter called this their anniversary.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
90, 107
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf.
65
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond.
44
Family and Intimate relationships
Radclyffe Hall
RH
's first lover, Mabel Batten
, died after suffering a stroke, six months after Hall's new affair, with Una Troubridge
, began.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Residence
Radclyffe Hall
RH
and Una Troubridge
moved into their first shared home: Grimston at Datchet in Buckinghamshire, rented by Una.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
136
Residence
Radclyffe Hall
RH
and Una
settled at Rye in East Sussex, where they lived in a succession of houses.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
267
Family and Intimate relationships
Radclyffe Hall
At the Hotel des Thermes in Bagnoles, RH
met Evgenia Souline
, a White Russian exile from what is now Belarus, who had been hired to nurse Una Troubridge
during a bout of enteritis.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
308, 314-16
Hall, Radclyffe. “Introduction”. Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall, edited by Joanne Glasgow, New York University Press.
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Textual Production
Radclyffe Hall
RH
gave the first of two lectures for the Society
for Psychical Research: the paper she gave was jointly written with Una Troubridge
.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
143-4
Cultural formation
Radclyffe Hall
RH
was a lesbian or, as she called herself, a congenital invert.
Hall, Radclyffe. Radclyffe Hall’s 1934 Letter About The Well of Loneliness. Lesbian Herstory Educational Foundation.
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She had three significant long-term relationships, with Mabel Batten
, Una Troubridge
, and Evgenia Souline
, as well as a number of brief affairs.
Family and Intimate relationships
Radclyffe Hall
Una, a sculptor, was Ladye's cousin and was unhappily married to Ernest Troubridge
, an admiral who was twenty-four years her senior and who was later knighted. They had one child together, a daughter.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
Thurman, Judith et al. “Introduction”. My Mother’s House; and Sido, translated by. Una Troubridge and Enid McLeod, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001, p. vii - xxiv.
Hall, Radclyffe. Le puits de solitude. Translators Troubridge, Una and Léo Lack, Gallimard, 1932.
Colette,. My Mother’s House; and Sido. Translators Troubridge, Una and Enid McLeod, Secker and Warburg, 1953.
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961.