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.
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, 1994.
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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
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, 1997.
308, 314-16
Hall, Radclyffe. “Introduction”. Your John: The Love Letters of Radclyffe Hall, edited by Joanne Glasgow, New York University Press, 1997.
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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, 1997.
114-17, 119-20
Family and Intimate relationships
Naomi Jacob
In the same sanatorium where she met a man whom she nearly married, NJ
encountered Olivia Etherington-Smith
, an upper-class woman with whom, after initial hostility on both sides, she began an affair which lasted...
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, 1997.
90, 107
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
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Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961.
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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, 1997.
With another member of the student company, Paul Scofield
, EJH
was invited to tea with Radclyffe Hall
and Una Troubridge
.
Howard, Elizabeth Jane. Slipstream. Macmillan, 2002.
89, 97-8
Friends, Associates
Naomi Jacob
NJ
wrote a letter of appreciation to Radclyffe Hall
after The Well of Loneliness appeared in 1928. In January the following year she met Hall and Una Troubridge
when the former lectured in Southend (though...
Friends, Associates
Edith Craig
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
Friends, Associates
Christopher St John
CSJ
, Edith Craig
, and Tony Atwood
spent much time in the company of Radclyffe Hall
and Una Troubridge
, who were staying temporarily in Kent while their house was being renovated.
Having at first been inclined to admire Mussolini
, NJ
had by summer 1935 recognized his Fascist
regime as hateful. This was a bold stance to adopt at this date for someone resident in Italy...
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Texts
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.