Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Martin Ross
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Standard Name: Ross, Martin
Birth Name: Violet Florence Martin
Pseudonym: Martin Ross
Pseudonym: Somerville and Ross
It is widely suspected that MR
may have been the dominant partner, the chief creative spirit, in the partnership of Somerville
and Ross which occupied the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (though the opposite view has also been argued). Their most memorable works—an important novel and a collection of classic comic stories set in the west of Ireland and centred on fox-hunting, as well as other endearing Irish sketches and travel writings—were completed before her death, and Somerville's publications after Ross died are permeated with an elegiac tone. They themselves poured scorn on their public's desire to teize apart the individual strands in their collaboration.
Stone, Marjorie, and Judith Thompson. Literary couplings: writing couples, collaborators, and the construction of authorship. University of Wisconsin Press.
Edith and Martin
made a series of journeys between 1890 and 1893, about which they wrote in various travel books.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
75, 99
They visited Connemara, the vineyards of Bordeaux, North Wales, Denmark...
Travel
Edith Somerville
ES
and Martin Ross
visited London together; the following month Ross's mother agreed to their making a short stay in Paris.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
42, 43
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
, with the woman medium Jem Barlow
, received what she took as a message from the spirit of Martin Ross
: You and I have not finished our work. Dear, we shall.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
177
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published, as by herself and Martin Ross
, a novel entitled Sarah's Youth.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
269
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
In Irish Memories, the first book she published after Martin Ross
's death, ES
used both names on the title-page, and related much of her collaboration with Ross.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
52
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
259-60
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
In the year of ES
's death there appeared, as a final collaboration with Martin Ross
and with her own illustrations, Maria, and Some Other Dogs.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
39
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
271
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jane Howard
She was invited to do a script for an Irish film by Jonathan Cavendish
about Edith Somerville
and Martin Ross
, but when she looked into their lives she thought they lacked the dramatic structure...
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published Mount Music, in the names of herself and Martin Ross
: the first novel since Ross's death.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
1920
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
260
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published as by herself and Martin RossStray-aways, a book of stories and sketches, many about her experiences with spiritualism and the occult.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
262-3
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
Ten years after the death of Martin Ross
, ES
published The Big House of Inver, as by Ross and herself: the first of several of her books published by William Heinemann
.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
263
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published French Leave, a light and pleasantly nostalgic novel,
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
91
as by herself and Martin Ross
.
In this month the US edition was published, using sheets shipped from England.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
264
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
The collaboration of ES
and Martin Ross was prolific and increasingly successful. From An Irish Cousin, 1889, written as a kind of escapade, and greeted by family mirth and derision, through their most famous...
