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Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон), 19 September 189910 April 1946) was an Australian journalist, poet, and self-declared "public
Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон), 19 September 189910 April 1946) was an Australian journalist, poet, and self-declared "public elocution
Elocution is the study of formal speaking in pronunciation, grammar, style, and tone as well as the idea and practice of effective speech and its forms. It stems from the idea that while communication is symbolic, sounds are final and compel ...
ist".
Early life and education
Tritton was born in Brisbane on 19 September 1899. Her parents, Fred Tritton, was a prominent Brisbane furniture warehouseman. In her mid-20s, she sailed to London and toured Europe, gaining a reputation for knowledge of international affairs, which brought her into contact with the Russian expatriates then living in Paris.Personal life
In 1928, Tritton married a former officer of Russia'sWhite Army
The White Army, also known as the White Guard, the White Guardsmen, or simply the Whites, was a common collective name for the armed formations of the White movement and Anti-Sovietism, anti-Bolshevik governments during the Russian Civil War. T ...
, Nicholas Alexander Nadejine, then 43-years-old, at the marriage registry office in Kensington
Kensington is an area of London in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, around west of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up by Kensingt ...
, England. Nadejine was a professional singer, but was unsuccessful in joining the Covent Garden Opera Company and reportedly had affairs with various wealthy Englishwomen. The couple divorced after eight years of marriage in 1936.
Three years later, in 1939, Tritton married exiled Russian prime minister Alexander Kerensky
Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky ( – 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 ( N.S.).
After th ...
in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania
Martins Creek is a census-designated place in Lower Mount Bethel Township, Pennsylvania located along Martins Creek (Delaware River tributary), Martins Creek. Its population was 664 as of the 2020 United States census, 2020 U.S. census. Martins C ...
, and they lived in exile in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a U.S. state, state spanning the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern United States, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes region, Great Lakes regions o ...
and then in Paris and New York City.
Death and legacy
In February 1946, while visiting her parents in Brisbane, Tritton had astroke
Stroke is a medical condition in which poor cerebral circulation, blood flow to a part of the brain causes cell death. There are two main types of stroke: brain ischemia, ischemic, due to lack of blood flow, and intracranial hemorrhage, hemor ...
and died of chronic nephritis
Nephritis is inflammation of the kidneys and may involve the glomeruli, tubules, or interstitial tissue surrounding the glomeruli and tubules. It is one of several different types of nephropathy.
Types
* Glomerulonephritis is inflammation ...
on 10 April.
In 2016, the story of Tritton's life was adapted into a play, ''Motherland'', by playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson.
References
Further reading
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tritton, Lydia Ellen 1899 births 1946 deaths 20th-century Australian journalists 20th-century Australian poets 20th-century Australian women writers Australian women journalists Australian women poets Deaths from nephritis Elocutionists Journalists from Queensland Writers from Brisbane