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.
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
published, as by herself and Martin Ross
, An Incorruptible Irishman, a biography of their shared great-grandfather.
In September of the same year the US edition was published, using sheets shipped from England.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
266
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
249
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
266
Textual Features
Edith Somerville
The first chapter is Martin Ross
's incomplete memoir of her brother James.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
146
ES
writes about her youth, her parents, and other family members, but mostly about Martin.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
183
Residence
Edith Somerville
ES
and Martin Ross
(Violet Martin) set up an apartment together on the Boulevard Edgar Quinet in Paris.
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
52
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published The Smile and the Tear, another collection of essays or reminiscences, 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.
266-7
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
261
Reception
Edith Somerville
She made it a condition of her acceptance that Ross
's name be added to hers in the citation. She had been offered such a degree by Yale
in 1929, but conditionally on her staying...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
ES
made a drawing of Martin Ross
three days before she died, in a most profound trance of peace.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
173
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
171-2
Publishing
Edith Somerville
ES
published, as by herself and Martin Ross
(who was now more than ten years dead), and with her own illustrations, The Sweet Cry of Hounds, another volume of essays or reminiscences.
Ten days after the death of her cousin and companion Violet
(Martin Ross), ES
wrote: This black, black year goes out in despair and tears.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
175
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.
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
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.