Richard Ormrod

On the outbreak of World War One, Ernest Troubridge , as the Commander of the Second Squadron, was assigned to the task of preventing German ships in the Adriatic from sallying out into the Mediterranean...

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.

UT later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up. Ernest Troubridge, who came from a distinguished naval family, was a friend of the Taylor family and a widower in...

UT was sick throughout most of her pregnancy. Later, the Troubridge family alleged that she had neglected her daughter, but biographer Richard Ormrod maintains that she felt maternal affection for Andrea, which was clearly visible...

UT first met Radclyffe Hall in 1912 through Mabel Batten (Ladye) , a cousin of UT 's who then lived with Hall.

In early 1913, UT suffered from recurring headaches, nausea, and insomnia. She consulted the neurologist and psychologist Hugh Crichton-Miller , who treated her with hypnotherapy at his clinic at Bowden House in Harrow. She...

UT 's biographer, Richard Ormrod , sees her paper as a fascinating and well-written document, showing a lucid, logical approach, much evidence of study of other cases, and the ability to assimilate, organize and manipulate ideas.

This biography has played a powerful role in shaping the subsequent understanding and interpretation of Hall's life, character, and career. For twenty-four years following its publication, until Michael Baker published Our Three Selves: The Life...

Aside from her translations, UT is largely remembered as the lover and amanuensis of Hall . She herself is partly responsible for this view of her life and work, because of her self-presententation as wholly...

UT 's other Pettit translations include The Woman Who Commanded 500,000,000 Men (1929, a biography of Empress Dowager Tz'u-Hsi ), translated from La femme qui commanda à cinq cent millions d'hommes, Petal-of-the-Rose (1930), translated...