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.
One of ES
's great-grandfathers, whom she shared with her collaborator Ross
, was Charles Kendal Bushe
, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
Within a few months Violet became a replacement for the lost Ethel Coghill. It was ES
who selected the name Martin Ross for her cousin, apparently to avoid confusion with another Violet in the family...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
Throughout Martin Ross
's final illness, ES
and her sister Hildegarde remained with her. Edith recorded her friend's progress towards death both in writing and drawing.
Lewis, Gifford. Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R. M. Viking.
237
Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
ES
met her second cousin Violet Martin
for the first time.
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
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Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
39, 25-8
Anthologization
Edith Somerville
ES
reprinted as a leaflet for private greetings Little Red Riding Hood in Kerry, as by herself and Martin Ross
, from an anthology of fairy stories published that year.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.