Lydia Ellen Tritton
Lydia "Nellé" Ellen Tritton , also Lydia Ellen Kerenski (born September 19, 1899 in East Brisbane , † April 10, 1946 in Brisbane ) was an Australian journalist.
Life
The daughter of the furniture dealer Frederick William Tritton from Jersey and Eliza Ellen, b. Worrall, attended Brisbane High School for Girls and then appeared in public as a reciter . In the early 1920s she moved to Sydney and worked as a journalist. In 1925 she sailed to London, traveled the continent and wrote for American magazines. In Italy she read Marie Bashkirtseff's diary (1897) , which inspired her to meet with Russian exiles.
On December 11, 1928, she married in Kensington , London, the singer and former officer of the White Army Nicholas Alexander Nadejine (* around 1885). During a visit to Brisbane , she took Russian lessons from Nina Maximoff (1911-2001; later Christesen ), who founded the Chair of Russian Language and Literature at the University of Melbourne in the 1940s . Back in London, Nadejine tried unsuccessfully to join the Covent Garden Opera Company . After he cheated on his wife with a "couple of crazy older English women", the childless marriage was divorced in 1936.
In Paris she met Alexander Kerensky and became his secretary. From March to June 1939 she visited Brisbane, where she gave lectures on international politics to various organizations and continued her Russian lessons with Nina's father. Kerensky, with whom she fell in love, lured her to the USA with the promise of being able to marry soon. They were married on August 20, 1939 in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania . The following month they moved into an apartment in Paris. In 1940 they fled to New York City via Spain and England before the German invasion . They lived in a small apartment on Park Avenue for two years before moving to a farmhouse near the Connecticut border . In October 1945 the couple traveled to Brisbane. While staying with her parents in Clayfield, Tritton suffered a stroke and died two months later of chronic nephritis .
Web links
- Short biography in the Australian Dictionary of Biography
- Daryl Passmore: Nell Tritton: a woman who blazed a trail in The Sunday Mail
Individual evidence
- ^ Short biography Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed August 26, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tritton, Lydia Ellen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tritton, Nellé Ellen (nickname); Kerensky, Lydia Ellen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 19, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | East Brisbane |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 10, 1946 |
| Place of death | Brisbane |