Mabel Batten

[2] She was a leading "patroness of music and the arts, mezzo-soprano and composer" of drawing room songs.

[1] They had one daughter, the painter and film maker Lady Cara Harris.

[2] She was friends with composer Adela Maddison who, in 1893, dedicated her "Deux Melodies" to her.

On 22 August 1907, at Bad Homburg, a spa in Germany, Mabel Batten met Radclyffe Hall.

When Batten died the following year, Troubridge took care of a defeated Hall and in 1917 they went to live together.

Mabel Batten as a young woman
Mrs. George Batten Singing by John Singer Sargent
Mabel Batten at the time of her relationship with Radclyffe Hall
Vault of Mabel Batten and Radclyffe Hall in Highgate Cemetery