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, 2006.
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...
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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, 1952.
266
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
249
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
266
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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, 1952.
266-7
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
261
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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, 1968.
39-41
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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.
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
270
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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, 1952.
255
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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, 1952.
267
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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...
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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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Edith Somerville
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.
qtd. in
Collis, Maurice. Somerville and Ross: A Biography. Faber and Faber, 1968.
177
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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, 1952.
269
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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, 1968.
52
Cummins, Geraldine. Dr. E. Œ. Somerville: A Biography. Andrew Dakers, 1952.
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.
