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.
299-300
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photo of Martin Ross, seen in profile. She wears a dark, sleeveless evening dress with beading at the shoulder, and her dark, curly hair in a pleat on her head..

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Bowen
The authors whom EB wrote of for the British Council in English Novelists are (as the commission required) canonical and mostly male. She was deeply influenced by Virginia Woolf , and wrote after Woolf's death...
Textual Features B. M. Croker
Some chapter titles (Clancy's Colt, Foxy Joe Tells Tales) suggest a work by Somerville and Ross , and so does the opening description of Ballingoole, which used to enjoy the best and...
Textual Production Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
Friends, Associates Augusta Gregory
One of AG 's friends at this time was Katherine Martin of Ross, whose elder sister, Violet Martin (known as Martin Ross) , later became part of a famous writing duo with her cousin Edith Somerville
Reception Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Molly Keane
The stories, told through the eyes of an Englishman dazzled by Ireland, concern a family in a big-house: an aristocratic father, domineering and hiding his love; a brother and sister whose lives are wrapped...
Textual Production Molly Keane
MK wrote a foreword for Gifford Lewis 's selection from the letters of Somerville and Ross , published in 1989.
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Intertextuality and Influence Mary Russell Mitford
Our Village is often said to have inaugurated its genre of small-scale, local-colour sketch writing, but (apart from Washington Irving 's Geoffrey Crayon's Sketch Book, 1819) it owes an obvious debt to the work...
Intertextuality and Influence Kate O'Brien
Lorna Reynolds notes a parallel between the KOB of this novel, on the one hand, and Somerville and Ross , on the other. Like her very different predecessors in the west-of-Ireland novel, O'Brien describes landscape...
Occupation Constance Smedley
Since the Langham Place Group had provided a social space for women in 1860, several organizations had already challenged the flourishing institution of men's clubs. The Lyceum Club came on the scene at a time...
Publishing Edith Somerville
ES published, as another collaboration with Martin Ross , with her own illustrations, Notions in Garrison.
The title, a quotation from the seventeenth-century writer Thomas Fuller , depends on a military metaphor: from these...
Friends, Associates Edith Somerville
ES began a series of attempts to get Martin Ross to manifest herself at spiritualist seances: nothing definite happened.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
221
Textual Production Edith Somerville
After her longest-ever gap, and thirty years after Ross's death, ES published, as another collaboration with Martin Ross , Happy Days! Essays of Sorts.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2318 (6 July1946): 320
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
270
Textual Production Edith Somerville
ES addressed to Martin Ross a letter about fox-hunting: the first written appearance between them of the topic they were to make their own.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
39-41

Timeline

1911: The Munster Women's Franchise League was...

National or international item

1911

The Munster Women's Franchise League was founded in Cork by writers Edith Somerville and Violet Martin , who published together as Somerville and Ross.

Texts

Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. A Patrick’s Day Hunt. Archibald Constable, 1902.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. All on the Irish Shore. Longmans, Green, 1903.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. An Irish Cousin. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. Beggars on Horseback. William Blackwood and Sons, 1895.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Dan Russel the Fox. Methuen, 1911.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Further Experiences of an Irish R. M. Longmans, Green, 1908.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. In Mr Knox’s Country. Longmans, Green, 1915.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. In the Vine Country. W. H. Allen, 1893.
O’Donovan, John et al. “Introduction”. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Folio Society, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Naboth’s Vineyard. Spencer Blackett, 1891.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. Longmans, Green, 1899.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Some Irish Yesterdays. Longmans, Green, 1906.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. The Real Charlotte. Ward and Downey, 1894.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. The Real Charlotte. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. The Silver Fox. Lawrence and Bullen, 1897.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. W. H. Allen, 1892.