Maurice Collis
, biographer of Somerville and Ross, believes that ES
was a lesbian who sublimated her physical desire but to whom any sexual union with a man had something revolting about it.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Cultural formation
Martin Ross
Maurice Collis
, biographer of her and her cousin Edith Somerville, believes that MR
was bisexual in orientation, rather than a thorough lesbian like Edith.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Her relationship with her cousin was written about in...
Friends, Associates
Edith Somerville
Somerville and Smyth
became close friends, and visited and travelled together, though biographer Maurice Collis
thinks that Smyth
expected a sexual relationship where Somerville did not.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
Maurice Collis
, biographer of Somerville and Ross, quotes a number of remarks and anecdotes from notebooks in which they recorded material from real life which might turn out useful in writing.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
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Textual Production
Martin Ross
Wilde, however, refused other work from them. As the years of their collaboration went on, they produced, says their biographer Maurice Collis
, an absorption: not by one writer of the other, but of the...
Wealth and Poverty
Martin Ross
MR
made her will: she left all her worldly possessions (including her literary copyrights) to Edith Somerville
.
Collis
connects this action with her ill health; but it seems more likely to have stemmed from...
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Texts
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.