ABSTRACT
Batten, known as Ladye. Her death in 1916 paved the way for Radclyffe’s and Una’s relationship. Troubridge and Hall moved between France and England where they had circles of lesbian friends including the lesbian painter Romaine Brooks who produced a famous portrait of Una. In the early 1930s Una began to experience a series of health problems and a nurse, the Russian expatriate Evguenia Souline, was engaged to look after her. Hall fell in love with Evguenia, and Una was to share Hall with her until Hall’s death in 1943. Una herself was the object of several other women’s affections, including the writer Naomi JACOB, but she refused any other liaison. Following Hall’s death Una moved first to Florence and then to Rome. In 1961, two years before her own death, Una’s biography of Radclyffe Hall, The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall, appeared, a biography which makes interesting reading for its omissions as much as its inclusions. It is best read alongside other biographies of Radclyffe Hall since that process gives a greater insight into the difference between how Una wanted to see her life with Hall, and how others view it. Troubridge was buried in the Verano Cemetery in Rome, contrary to her wishes to be buried next to Hall at Highgate Cemetery in London.
