Richard Ormrod

Standard Name: Ormrod, Richard

Connections

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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 Una Troubridge
UT later said of her marriage: Almost before I knew it I was grown-up.
qtd. in
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
39
Ernest Troubridge, who came from a distinguished naval family, was a friend of the Taylor family and a widower in...
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
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...
Family and Intimate relationships Una Troubridge
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...
Friends, Associates Una Troubridge
UT first met Radclyffe Hall in 1912 through Mabel Batten (Ladye) , a cousin of UT 's who then lived with Hall.
Baker, Michael. Our Three Selves: The Life of Radclyffe Hall. Hamish Hamilton, 1985.
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Richard Ormrod mis-dates this first meeting as having occurred in 1913.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
71
Health Una Troubridge
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...
Literary responses Una Troubridge
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.
Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.
104
Literary responses Una Troubridge
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...
Literary responses Una Troubridge
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...
Textual Production Una Troubridge
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...

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Ormrod, Richard. Una Troubridge: The Friend of Radclyffe Hall. Carroll and Graf, 1985.