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
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
Textual Production
Radclyffe Hall
By April 1935, RH
abandoned a partly completed novel entitled Emblem Hurlstone.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
340
From September 1936 to March 1937 she worked on another manuscript, a novel called The Merano Shoemaker, which was destroyed...
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
Textual Production
Stevie Smith
SS
's list of requisites for a critic or reviewer goes like this: Attention, impartiality, and no regard for age or sex.
Smith, Stevie. Me Again. Editors Barbera, Jack and William McBrien, Vintage.
173
In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
Textual Features
Djuna Barnes
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...
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
Publishing
Colette
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...
politics
Naomi Jacob
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...
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.
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.
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...
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.