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.
299-300
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photo of Martin Ross, seen in profile. She wears a dark, sleeveless evening dress with beading at the shoulder, and her dark, curly hair in a pleat on her head..

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Travel Edith Somerville
Edith and Martin made a series of journeys between 1890 and 1893, about which they wrote in various travel books.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
75, 99
They visited Connemara, the vineyards of Bordeaux, North Wales, Denmark...
Travel Edith Somerville
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 a new novel, An Enthusiast, with a different arrangement of names, as (in all but the first printing) by herself in collaboration with
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
262
Martin Ross .
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1017 (14 July 1921): 449
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
200
Textual Production Edith Somerville
ES published Wheel-Tracks (which she described as autobiographical),
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
263
as by both herself and Martin Ross , illustrated with her drawings and photographs.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
1133 (4 October 1923): 649
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
262-3
Textual Production Edith Somerville
Ten years after the death of Martin Ross , ES published The Big House of Inver, as by Ross and herself: the first of several of her books published by William Heinemann .
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
263
Textual Production Edith Somerville
ES published French Leave, a light and pleasantly nostalgic novel,
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
91
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.
264
Textual Production Edith Somerville
The collaboration of ES and Martin Ross was prolific and increasingly successful. From An Irish Cousin, 1889, written as a kind of escapade, and greeted by family mirth and derision, through their most famous...
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 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
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.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
2318 (6 July1946): 320
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
270
Textual Production Oscar Wilde
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...
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 Maureen Duffy
One Goodnight, the first of MD 's two radio plays about the Irish writers Edith Somerville and Martin Ross , aired on the BBC .
“The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association.
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

Timeline

1911: The Munster Women's Franchise League was...

National or international item

1911

The Munster Women's Franchise League was founded in Cork by writers Edith Somerville and Violet Martin , who published together as Somerville and Ross.

Texts

Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. A Patrick’s Day Hunt. Archibald Constable, 1902.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. All on the Irish Shore. Longmans, Green, 1903.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. An Irish Cousin. Richard Bentley and Son, 1889.
Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. Beggars on Horseback. William Blackwood and Sons, 1895.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Dan Russel the Fox. Methuen, 1911.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Further Experiences of an Irish R. M. Longmans, Green, 1908.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. In Mr Knox’s Country. Longmans, Green, 1915.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. In the Vine Country. W. H. Allen, 1893.
O’Donovan, John et al. “Introduction”. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M., Folio Society, 1984, p. vii - xvii.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Naboth’s Vineyard. Spencer Blackett, 1891.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. Longmans, Green, 1899.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Some Irish Yesterdays. Longmans, Green, 1906.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. The Real Charlotte. Ward and Downey, 1894.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. The Real Charlotte. Chatto and Windus, 1972.
Ross, Martin, and Edith Somerville. The Silver Fox. Lawrence and Bullen, 1897.
Somerville, Edith, and Martin Ross. Through Connemara in a Governess Cart. W. H. Allen, 1892.