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Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон)) was an Australian journalist, poet and "public elocutionist".
Lydia "Nellé" Tritton (Russian: Лидия Тереза ("Нелль") Керенская (Триттон)) was an Australian journalist, poet and "public elocutionist".
Biography
Lydia "Nellé" Tritton was born inBrisbane
Brisbane ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the states and territories of Australia, Australian state of Queensland, and the list of cities in Australia by population, third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a populati ...
, Australia on 19 September 1899 and died on 10 April 1946.
As a young woman in her mid twenties, Tritton sailed to London
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and toured Europe, gaining a reputation for knowledge of international affairs, which brought her into contact with Russian expatriates living in Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. ...
. In 1928 she married a former officer of the White Russian Army, Nicholas Alexander Nadejine, 43, in Kensington registry office. Nadejine, a professional singer, was unsuccessful in joining the Covent Garden Opera Company and reportedly had affairs with various rich Englishwomen. The couple divorced in 1936.
In 1939 Tritton married exiled Russia
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n prime minister Alexander Kerensky
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in Martins Creek, Pennsylvania
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and lived in exile in Pennsylvania
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. Following their wedding, the Kerenskys lived in Paris briefly before moving to New York. In February 1946, while visiting her parents in Brisbane
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, Australia, Nell suffered a stroke 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.
The story of her life was turned into a play ''Motherland'', in 2016 by playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson.
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Further reading
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tritton, Lydia Ellen 1899 births 1946 deaths Australian women journalists Deaths from nephritis Australian women poets Writers from Brisbane Journalists from Queensland 20th-century Australian journalists 20th-century Australian poets 19th-century Australian women 20th-century Australian women Elocutionists