Una Troubridge

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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.
  • BirthName: Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor
  • Nickname: Una
  • Self-constructed: Vincenzo
    UT took the surname Vincenzo from her mother's Italian relatives.
    Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
    107
  • Married: Troubridge
  • Titled: Lady
    Her husband was knighted a few years into their marriage.
Colour photo of Una Troubridge from the waist up, wearing a black suit-jacket, white high-necked shirt, cravat, and red lipstick. Her brown hair is cropped, but her fringe is quite long. She has a monocle in one eye.

Milestones

8 March 1887

Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor (later UT ) was born in Kensington. She had one elder sister, named Viola.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
3-4
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
62

By 31 January 1918

UT collaborated with Radclyffe Hall on the first part of a research paper, On a Series of Sittings with Mrs. Osborne Leonard. Hall now delivered it to a private council of Society for Psychical Research members.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
144
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
109
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
103, 105

By 8 December 1961

UT published her biography, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall, which she had finished writing by 19 February 1945.
Norman, Sylva. “A Woman’s World”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 3119, 8 Dec. 1961, p. 883.
883
Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961.
5
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
291, 307-8
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997.
107

24 September 1963

UT died in Rome of liver cancer.
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
356
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
314

Biography

Birth and Background

8 March 1887

Margot Elena Gertrude Taylor (later UT ) was born in Kensington. She had one elder sister, named Viola.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
3-4
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
62

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