The Trials of Radclyffe Hall by Diana Souhami (interesting novels to read txt) 📕

Taylor, Sir Henry, 69, 206

Taylor, Minna (Una Troubridge’s mother): RH meets, 67; background, 68; and Una’s title, 103; and Una’s lifestyle, 118; visits RH and Una, 140; praises RH’s Adam’s Breed, 142; and Andrea’s romances, 144; Una’s intolerance of, 145; relations with Una, 169, 303, 305, 322; dislikes Una’s relations with RH, 173, 219; and Una’s hysterectomy, 247; visits Rye, 249; intervenes over Andrea’s marriage plans, 256; cancer, 303, 322; in Slough, 305; Una visits after war, 367; death, 370

Tealdi family, 68–9, 311

Tealdi, Sandra, 321, 369

Temple, Ida, 98, 136, 142, 144, 188

Tenerife, 48

Terry, Ellen, 240

Theodore, Sister, 119

Thesiger, Ernest, 55, 63, 66, 148, 253

Thomson, Dr, 142

Thorndyke, (Dame) Sybil, 148, 305

Thurston, Father, 97

Tizzard, Dr, 334–5

Toklas, Alice B., 290

Tomlinson, Clarence Samuel, 237

Trefusis, Violet (née Keppel), 147, 186

Troubridge, Andrea Theodosia (later Warren; then Turnbull; Una’s daughter): birth, 70; mother fosters out, 74–5; RH proposes taking abroad, 78; holiday visits to mother 94, 98, 136, 140–1; father’s separation from, 99; in father’s will, 101–2; schooling, 102, 119, 123, 144; relations with mother, 118–19, 136, 140, 142, 144–5, 174, 238, 244–5, 255–7; rebuked over boyfriend, 142, 144; and father’s death, 145; visits Rye, 218, 238, 244–5, 305; Oxford scholarship, 236; visits mother and RH in Paris, 236; appearance and dress, 244–5; romance with actor, 244–5; and mother’s stay in hospital, 247–8; grandmother pleads for help for, 249; marriage to Toby Warren, 255–7; son born, 287; and grandmother’s cancer, 303; marriage breakdown, 305, 323; informs Evguenia of RH’s illness, 307; and son’s ill-health, 322; leaves Catholic Church, 323; disinherited, 367; second marriage (to Turnbull), 370

Troubridge, Edith (née Duffus; Ernest’s first wife), 69

Troubridge, Admiral Sir Ernest (Una’s husband): marriage, 67, 69–70, 76–8, 98; naval investigation into conduct, 72–3; at Mabel Batten’s requiem mass, 79; and Una’s preoccupation with RH, 98–9, 101, 105, 184; separation and divorce from Una, 101–2, 161; will, 101; pays maintenance for daughter Andrea, 102; knighthood, 103; accuses RH of immorality, 105–8, 112; relations with Andrea, 140, 144; death, 144–5

Troubridge, Mary (Ernest’s daughter), 70, 77

Troubridge, Thomas (Ernest’s son), 71, 77, 145, 244, 255–7

Troubridge, Una, Lady (née Taylor): and Visetti’s advances to RH, 16–17; on Mabel Batten, 36, 273; background and marriage, 67–73, 76–8; meets RH, 67, 73; syphilis, 67, 70, 77, 101–2, 136; health complaints, 68, 70, 81, 85, 94, 121, 124, 146–7, 172, 244, 247, 250, 262, 275; artistic activities, 69, 71–2, 75; converts to Catholicism, 69; birth of daughter Andrea, 70; attitude to daughter Andrea, 71, 119, 135–6, 141–2, 144–5, 136, 138, 144–5. 155–7, 305; psychotherapy, 71, 77, 101–2, 120; relations with RH, 74–8, 85, 92–4, 98–9, 102–4, 112, 115, 125, 131–2, 135, 140, 142, 161, 306–8; usurps Ladye, 74, 124, 302; diary, 81, 93–4, 140, 347, 354, 364; and Mabel Batten’s death, 81; aids RH’s spiritualist pursuits, 88–93, 95–7, 99–100, 102, 105; moves house, 93–4, 98; nurses RH, 93; Dolly Clarke criticises, 98; separation and divorce from Ernest, 101–2, 161; adopts title, 103; in Bowden House, 103; in RH immorality case, 107–11; in Society for Psychical Research, 118; reading, 120, 141, 155, 158, 171, 213, 222, 234; in Italy with RH, 123–4, 308; encourages and helps RH’s novel-writing, 126–8, 135, 138–40, 245–6, 280, 282; appearance and dress, 129, 132, 244, 358, 367, 369, 371; and lesbian social life, 130–1; Romaine Brooks portrait of, 132; receives electric treatment, 136; writing and translating, 140, 238, 140, 242, 371, 373; pension following Troubridge’s death, 144–5; and RH’s theories of inversion, 156; and RHs Well of Loneliness, 159, 161, 167–8, 172–3; relations with mother, 169, 303, 305, 322; Compton Mackenzie satirizes 171; and prosecution of The Well of Loneliness, 181–2, 186, 193, 198, 219; at hearing against The Well of Loneliness, 201, 207; and RH’s hurt at cartoon in The Sink of Loneliness, 220; in Paris with RH, 222, 230, 289; and US case against The Well of Loneliness, 224; French holiday with RH, 230, 233–5; and dramatization of The Well of Loneliness, 234; RH buys Rye house for (Black Boy), 238; life in Rye, 241–5, 252–3, 280; and RH’s health problems, 243, 334–43; hysterectomy, 247–9; on Mrs Visetti’s ill-health, 249; opposes Andrea’s marriage to Toby, 255–7; and RH’s involvement with Evguenia, 263–71, 273–86, 288–95, 302, 304, 307–10, 313–17, 323, 331, 377; belittles RH’s Emblem Hurlstone, 274, 280, 308, 310; abuses Evguenia, 278, 289, 302, 323, 330–3, 338; admires Mussolini and Italian fascism, 285, 297, 301, 311, 316; and birth of Andrea’s son, 287; quarrels with Evguenia, 296–7, 324–5, 336; Christmas gift to Evguenia, 298; and RH’s fall and injury, 306–8; belittles RH’s The Shoemaker of Merano, 308, 310; in Florence, 309–11, 316–18; benefits under RH’s will, 314; humiliated by RH, 314; tyrannizes RH, 321; and Evguenia’s freedom from RH, 323; and Evguenia’s position at outbreak of war, 326–7; on Evguenia’s Exeter hospital, 329; dominates RH during war, 332–4, 338–43; religious worship, 332–3; cares for invalid RH, 334–47; and RH’s eye operation, 334–5; made executrix and beneficiary of RH’s revised will, 346–7, 349, 353, 357; and dying RH, 347–9; posthumous manipulation of RH’s image, 353–4, 358–9; burns manuscript of The Shoemaker of Merano, 354; destroys Evguenia’s letters to RH, 354; controls and limits RH’s posthumous allowance to Evguenia, 355–8, 363–5, 370–4, 376–7; memoir of RH, 360–2; withholds payments to Mrs Visetti, 360, 362–3; and Evguenia’s marriage, 365; post-war return to Florence, 369–71; and Rossi-Lemeni, 373–7; and Evguenia’s illness, 375–6; will, 376; and Evguenia’s death, 377–8; The Life and Death of Radclyffe Hall, 360, 363

Turnbull, Brigadier Douglas John Tulloch (Andrea’s second husband), 370

Twixt Earth and Stars (RH; poetry), 32

Unlit Lamp, The (RH; earlier Octopi; novel), 116–17, 124, 126, 130, 132, 135, 139, 310

Vincenzo family, 68

Visetti, Alberto Antonio (RH’s stepfather): marriage to RH’s mother, 15–19; music teaching, 15, 21–3; makes advances to RH, 16–17, 269; extravagance and debts, 25, 53, 152–3; stays with RH, 53; ill health, 123, 154; death, 172; proposed biography of, 294

Visetti, Mary Jane (née Diehl; then Sager; then Radclyffe-Hall; RH’s mother): relations with RH, 4–5, 7–10, 12, 17, 27, 31–2, 42, 53, 116, 151–4, 172, 287; marriage to Radclyffe, 4–7; character