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.
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
Within a few months Violet became a replacement for the lost Ethel Coghill. It was ES
who selected the name Martin Ross for her cousin, apparently to avoid confusion with another Violet in the family...
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.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers.
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politics
Edith Somerville
ES
and Martin Ross
campaigned for women's suffrage in Ireland, but they did not support the militancy and the anti-Home-Rule stance of English suffragists.
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.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
Throughout Martin Ross
's final illness, ES
and her sister Hildegarde remained with her. Edith recorded her friend's progress towards death both in writing and drawing.
Lewis, Gifford. Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R. M. Viking.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Edith Somerville
ES
met her second cousin Violet Martin
for the first time.
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
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Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber.
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Textual Production
Edith Somerville
ES
published French Leave, a light and pleasantly nostalgic novel,
Cronin, John. Somerville and Ross. Bucknell University Press.
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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.
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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...
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.
