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She wrote almost 60 novels and many short stories.Lady Troubridge (nee Gurney) was born in 1867 in London, England. She was the daughter of Charles Henry Gurney and Alice Marie Prinsep[1] and granddaughter of Henry Thoby Prinsep and Sara Monckton (nee Pattle).[2]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4Her father died when she was 11 years old, and her sister, Rachel who later married William Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley, was 10.  In 1897 her mother married a second time, to Colonel John Bourchier Stracey-Clitherow[3] who in 1900 took up residence at Hotham Hall in East Riding, and later, after the death of his father in 1912, Boston Manor.[4] The Washington Post in 1907 states Troubridge ‘is the only sister of young Lady Sybil Dudley who as an orphan was adopted by the Duke of Bedford’.  But in the same article also states Troubridge was ‘orphaned at a tender age’[5] which seems in conflict with other sources showing her mother died in 1919 when Troubridge was 52 years old.[6]  Adding to confusion about Troubridge’s early life, Baroness Franzisca von Hedeman states ‘Rachel Gurney…was brought up by the Marchioness of Tavistock, now Adeline, Duchess of Bedford…Her sister, Laura Gurney, now Lady Trowbridge, who is much admired for her literary taste, was brought up by her Aunt, Lady Henry Somerset, well known in America.”[7] Whatever the exact circumstances of her childhood, Troubridge spent much of her youth in Somerset’s house where the refined library atmosphere influenced her future as a writer. \u00a0  Laura Gurney, Lady Troubridge by George Frederic WattsShe married her cousin Sir Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge, 4th Baronet, on 13 July 1893.[1] They had two daughters and one son.[8]\u00a0 In 1930 their home, Ole Ways in Beaulieu, was completely destroyed by fire \u2018Lady Troubridge who is a well-known authoress, lost hundreds of sheets of typescript.\u00a0 She was at her desk when the outbreak occurred, but managed to save the manuscripts on which she was engaged.\u2019[9]She died on 8 July 1946[1] and was buried at Abbey Church, Beaulieu, Hampshire.[10]       (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4She wrote under her title, Lady Troubridge, and authored almost three dozen novels, numerous short stories and, newspaper serial stories and articles.Her first novel, Paul\u2019s Stepmother, and One Other Story, was published in 1896.\u00a0 After a lapse of some years she wrote her first essay, Thou Woman Thou Gavest, in 1906.\u00a0 It was a brilliant success[5] and was followed by almost annual publications until the late 1930s.[11]Troubridge published The Millionaire in 1907 and it caused a sensation.  The Washington Post wrote: ‘Lady Troubridge, the facile romancist, whose latest novel, \u201cThe Millionaire\u201d, created a sensation in England’\u00a0 and continues, she ‘depicts in classic style the trials of a young girl who leaves a dingy home in the suburbs of London to take her place in cosmopolitan society.\u00a0 Throughout the story the secret sins of the upper classes are laid bare\u2026and the innocent who are grabbed by the tentacles of the social octopus find it a herculean task to rescue themselves from its clutches.’[5]His Grace Gives Notice was published in 1922.  It has been dramatised in film twice.  Once in 1924 and a second time in 1933.NOTICEOur English law of succession by which a man may inherit the titles and estates of a noble House of which he is a remote and obscure member is the only explanation of much which, to the uninitiated, seems, and would otherwise be, incredible.\u00a0 The annals of great families contain records of many strange events of which the world at large knows nothing.\u00a0 These family secrets, more or less well kept, are often merely sordid and melodramatic; but now and then an event occurs which is singularly full of real romance.\u00a0 Though you may not find the Duke of St. Bevis in Burke or Debrett, perhaps you may have seen his prototype adorning some humble station, or may meet him later without ever realizing what he has owed to the accident of fortune. – Lady Troubridge, His Grace Gives Notice (1922)On her book Memories and Reflections (1925) The Guardian wrote that she had \u201call the advantages of the most fortunate autobiographers\u2026She has been from childhood in the habit of mixing with beautiful, fashionable and even interesting people\u201d\u00a0 Her memoirs included comments on places she had been, her experiences and people she met. ‘She has been on both sides of the Channel, to the places where \u201ceverybody\u201d goes’ and knew fellow authors, such as Belloe Lownders and Stephen McKenan, and met royalty, King Edward VII and Queen Victoria.\u00a0 The Guardian continues “Altogether this is a good natured, attractive and chatty book..and the pictures of the authoress’ childhood\u2026is particularly pleasant.”[12]She wrote The Book of Etiquette which was first published in 1926. Over the following six decades, until 1987, a further 29 editions were published.[13] \u00a0In 1939 My Home published excerpts from it as a booklet titled Etiquette and Entertaining.\u00a0 The Book of Etiquette, unlike its predecessors, was focused on a British audience. It was a thorough guide to English social etiquette in upper class society.[14] It intended to help readers steer their way through \u2018unwritten laws\u2019 of social behaviour and between old-fashion courtesy and the new spirit of informality.[15]  Troubridge became well respected for her views on etiquette even before The Book of Etiquette.\u00a0 The Sheboygan Press, for example, quoted her as the authority on \u2018When to Propose Marriage\u2019 in 1911.[16]\u00a0 Her reputation on all things etiquette extended beyond her life.\u00a0 For the film Gosford Park released in 2002, The Book of Etiquette was given to cast members to use for researching etiquette during the 1930s.[17]She wrote seven society novels for Mills & Boon between 1909 and 1912:[18]The Woman who Forgot; The First Law; The Cheat; Body and Soul; Stormlight; The Girl with the Blue Eyes; and The Creature of Circumstance.[19]Her short stories were published in magazines such as Britannia and Eve, Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction, Marks & Spencer\u2019s Grand Annual, Miss Modern, Nash\u2019s Magazine, The Grand Magazine, The Lady\u2019s Realm, The London Magazine, The Novel Magazine, The Pall Mall Magazine, The Red Magazine, The Sovereign Magazine, The Story-teller and The Yellow Magazine.[20]  Troubridge also wrote serial stories for newspapers, The True Heart in 1915 for the Staffordshire Sentinel, is an example of such a story.[21]  Her opinions, stories and letters appeared in newspapers far as Australia such as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Daily News (Perth).[15]Towards the end of her life she wrote for the women\u2019s magazine Home Chat as an agony aunt.[22]  Lady Troubridge, ca. 1912Paul’s Stepmother, and One Other Story, 1896The Woman Thou Gavest, 1906The Millionaire, 1907House Of Cards, 1908Marriage Of Blackmail, 1909The Cheat, 1909The First Law, 1909The Woman Who Forgot, 1910Body And Soul, 1911Storm-Light, 1912The Creature Of Circumstance, 1912The Girl With The Blue Eyes, 1912The Unguarded Hour, 1913This Man And This Woman, 1913The Half Of His Kingdom, 1915The Evil Day, 1916Mrs Vernon’s Daughter, 1917All’s Well, Billy, 1918O, Perfect Love, 1920His Grace Gives Notice, 1922Passion Flower, 1923Memories And Reflections, 1925Dangerous Bonds, 1926The Book of Etiquette, 2 volumes, 1926The Dusty Angel, 1927Exit Marriage, 1929The Purse Strings, 1929The Story Of Leonora, 1930Life Of The Late Lord Montagu Of Beaulieu, with Archibald Marshall, 1930The Property Of A Gentleman, 1931The Marriages Of Georgia, 1932The Brighthavens At Home, 1934Etiquette and Entertaining: To Help You On Your Social Way, 1939None but the BraveReferences[edit]^ a b c “Laura Gurney”. The Peerage. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ Dakers, Caroline (1999). The Holland Park Circle: Artists and Victorian Society. Yale University Press. p.\u00a027. ISBN\u00a00300081642.^ “John Bourchier Stracey”. The Peerage. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ “CLITHEROW FAMILY”. The National Archives. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ a b c “Author of England’s Latest Book Sensation”. Washington Post. 29 September 1907.^ “Alice Marie Prinsep”. The Peerage. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ Baroness von Hedemann, Franzisca (1917). Love Stories of Court Beauties. George H. Doran Company. p.\u00a0150.^ “Laura Troubridge”. Goodreads. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ “Baronet’s Home Destroyed”. The Guardian. 5 September 1930.^ “Thomas Herbert Cochrane Troubridge grave monument”. Gravestone Photographic Resource 1998 – 2020. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ Moruzi, Kristine (2016). Constructing Girlhood through the Periodical Press, 1850-1915. Routledge. p.\u00a0178. ISBN\u00a09781317161509.^ “Memoirs of a Lady of Quality (Memories and Reflections, by Lady Troubridge)”. The Guardian. 5 August 1925.^ “Troubridge, Laura 1858-1929”. WorldCat Identities. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ “Etiquette and Entertaining: To Help You On Your Social Way”. Goodreads. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ a b Chanin, Eileen (2014). Limbang Rebellion: Seven Days in December 1962. Pen and Sword. ISBN\u00a09781473831957.^ “When to Propose Marriage”. The Sheboygan Daily Press. 17 April 1911.^ Blume, Mary (16 February 2002). “In film, Robert Altman is the guy whodunit all”. The New York Times.^ Dixon, Jay (2016). The Romantic Fiction Of Mills & Boon. Routledge. p.\u00a015. ISBN\u00a09781134217304.^ Buckrose, J.E. (1913). Rambles in the North Yorkshire Dales. Mills & Boon Limited. pp.\u00a0292 and 293.^ “Troubridge, Lady”. The FictionMags Index. Retrieved 6 February 2020.^ Troubridge, Lady (18 January 1915). “The True Heart, Chapter I”. Staffordshire Sentinel.^ “Lady Troubridge: Mistress of Etiquette” (PDF). Beaulieu History Society.External links[edit]     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});after-content-x4"},{"@context":"http:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Enzyklop\u00e4die"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https:\/\/wiki.edu.vn\/en\/wiki19\/laura-lady-troubridge-wikipedia\/#breadcrumbitem","name":"Laura, Lady Troubridge – Wikipedia"}}]}]