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
, with the woman medium Jem Barlow
, received what she took as a message from the spirit of Martin Ross
: You and I have not finished our work. Dear, we shall.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
177
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published, as by herself and Martin Ross
, a novel entitled Sarah's Youth.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
269
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
In Irish Memories, the first book she published after Martin Ross
's death, ES
used both names on the title-page, and related much of her collaboration with Ross.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
259-60
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
In the year of ES
's death there appeared, as a final collaboration with Martin Ross
and with her own illustrations, Maria, and Some Other Dogs.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
39
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
271
Textual Production
Elizabeth Jane Howard
She was invited to do a script for an Irish film by Jonathan Cavendish
about Edith Somerville
and Martin Ross
, but when she looked into their lives she thought they lacked the dramatic structure...
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published Mount Music, in the names of herself and Martin Ross
: the first novel since Ross's death.
Book Review Digest. H. W. Wilson.
1920
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
260
Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published as by herself and Martin RossStray-aways, a book of stories and sketches, many about her experiences with spiritualism and the occult.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
261
Textual Production
Molly Keane
MK
wrote a foreword for Gifford Lewis
's selection from the letters of Somerville
and Ross
, published in 1989.
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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
Textual Features
B. M. Croker
Some chapter titles (Clancy's Colt, Foxy Joe Tells Tales) suggest a work by Somerville
and Ross
, and so does the opening description of Ballingoole, which used to enjoy the best and...
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.
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Residence
Katharine Tynan
In the autumn of 1914, KT
's husband
moved from their current home, Clarebeg at Shankill near Dublin, to County Mayo in Western Ireland, where he had been appointed the Resident Magistrate. He held...
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...
Reception
Augusta Gregory
Bernard Shaw
saw Lady Gregory as a born playwright . . . . doomed from the cradle to write for the stage, to break through every social obstacle to get to the stage, to refuse...
Reception
Edith Somerville
ES
's nephew Nevill Coghill
broadcast a talk about her for the BBC
: she thought it beautifully done but wished he had said more about Martin Ross
.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.