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 ascending Author name Excerpt
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
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.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
On 26 October 1930 the Stage Society in...
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.
161
Virginia Woolf 's letters to Vita Sackville-West reflect her interest in attending, though it is not...
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.
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...

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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.