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.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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, 1994. 2 |
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. 3 |
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. 65 Troubridge, Una. The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall. Hammond, Hammond, 1961. 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, 1997. 125-6 |
Friends, Associates | Radclyffe Hall | During the 1920s, RH
and Una Troubridge
were friends with a wide range of writers, actors, and artists, including Ida Wylie
, Romaine Brooks
, Natalie Barney
, Noël Coward
, Tallulah Bankhead
, and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jane Howard | 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 | Ethel Mannin | EM
entertained frequently at Oak Cottage, the house she bought after separating from her first husband. Visitors included Paul Tanqueray
, Louis Marlow
, Ralph Straus
, Norman Haire
, Fenner Brockway
, and... |
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. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 161 |
Leisure and Society | Edith Craig | Radclyffe Hall
and Una Troubridge
, who lived nearby, were among those who attended the Barn Theatre
performances. Cockin, Katharine. Edith Craig (1869-1947): Dramatic Lives. Cassell, 1998. 161 |
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. Jouvenel, Anne deEditor , Gallimard, 2003. 29n1 OCLC WorldCat. |
politics | Naomi Jacob |
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