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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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, 1997.
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, 1997.
267
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...
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, 1993.
62
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, 1997.
340
From September 1936 to March 1937 she worked on another manuscript, a novel called The Merano Shoemaker, which was destroyed...
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, 1983.
173
In April 1941 she was reviewing for John O'London's, Country Life...
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, 1997.
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