Michael Baker

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...

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...

UT 's day books, writes biographer Michael Baker , constitute a highly revealing record in which Una aired her private feelings with a forthrightness both vivid and entertaining; they also show an elegant...

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...

By 1925 UT was working as a reader of manuscripts for Cassells and for Radclyffe Hall 's agent Audrey Heath . She had also begun reviewing books for the Sunday Times.

Their research impressed the audience so much that they were asked to deliver the second part of the paper as a public lecture, which they did on 22 March. The initial, private presentation also, however...

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...

Biographer Michael Baker describes The Son of the Grand Eunuch as a a florid romantic novel set amid the perfumed mysteries of the exotic Orient.