Maurice Collis

Maurice Collis , biographer of her and her cousin Edith Somerville, believes that MR was bisexual in orientation, rather than a thorough lesbian like Edith. Her relationship with her cousin was written about in...

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.

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. It seems that Smyth later gave Virginia Woolf

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...

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.

MR made her will: she left all her worldly possessions (including her literary copyrights) to Edith Somerville .