Edith Somerville
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Ireland and centred on fox-hunting), as well as other endearing Irish sketches and travel writings. She continued to write in these genres, mostly story and memoir, after Ross's death (which she saw as interrupting but not ending their collaboration). The later works (the last appeared in 1949) are suffused with nostalgia, and very largely dominated by the need to make money, to keep going an estate which was no longer financially viable. The massive archive of
's diary and letters is still almost unexamined.
, who published from 1885, is known from the Somerville and Ross partnership which produced at least one important novel and a collection of classic comic stories (set in the west of - BirthName: Edith Anne Œnone Somerville
- Pseudonyms: Geilles Herring; Viva Graham; E. Œ. Somerville; Somerville and RossThese two pseudonyms were used, once only, on the first and second editions of Somerville and Ross's first book.