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.
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
161

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