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.
Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated...
Residence
Katharine Tynan
In the autumn of 1914, KT
's husband
moved from their current home, Clarebeg at Shankill near Dublin, to County Mayo in Western Ireland, where he had been appointed the Resident Magistrate. He held...
Friends, Associates
Katherine Cecil Thurston
Through these social engagements, KCT
came into contact with several significant figures of the day. At a dinner given by Colonel George Harvey
, for instance, she probably met Mr
and Mrs Winston Churchill
...
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.
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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...
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.
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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.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
270
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
edited and published, as by herself and Martin Ross
, Notes of the Horn: Hunting Verse, Old and New; the title-page mentions her former status as a Master of Fox-Hounds.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
267
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published a book on her own, without Martin Ross
: Slipper's A B C of Fox Hunting. The title-page attached to her name her title of MFH (Master of Fox-Hounds).
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
255
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.
268
Publishing
Edith Somerville
ES
published another book without the collaboration of Martin Ross
: The Story of the Discontented Little Elephant. Told in Pictures and Rhyme, for children.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
258
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
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
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
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.
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Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.