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Edith Anna Œnone Somerville [needs IPA] (2 May 1858 – 8 October 1949) was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" (Violet Martin) under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross".
May 2, 2024 · Edith Somerville lived a life on her own terms as an unmarried author, artist, and activist in the early 20th century. Read her story!
Early in 1886 Violet Martin had paid a visit to her second cousin Edith Œ. Somerville in Castletownshend, west Cork, which turned out to have a lasting effect on both writers’ careers; a deep friendship and a unique literary partnership emerged, which lasted till Martin's death in 1915.
Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, writing under the name Martin Ross) were an Anglo-Irish writing team, perhaps most famous for their series of books that were made into the TV series The Irish R.M..
Somerville and Ross, Irish cousins and writers who collaborated on a series of novels and short stories that wittily and sympathetically portrayed Irish society in the late 19th century. After the death of Violet Martin (also known as Martin Ross) in 1915, Edith Somerville continued to use their joint pseudonym.
Edith Anna OEnone Somerville (1858-1949), who in collaboration with her cousin Violet Martin published under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross," wrote the popular Experiences of an Irish R. M. stories, as well as one of the finest Irish novels of the 19th century, The Real Charlotte.
Somerville and Ross. Cousins and collaborators who in their novels and other writings chronicled the declining fortunes of their class, the Anglo-Irish gentry, in the decades before Irish independence. Somerville, E. (1858–1949). Name variations: Edith Somerville.
The story of two female cousin co-writers from the Anglo-Irish Ascendancy class, as that class faded from history, is an absorbing tale full of eccentricity, fox hunting, spiritualism, early feminism, and a unique bond between a matched pair of brilliant minds. Edith Oenone Somerville was born May 2, 1858, on the Greek island of Corfu, where ...
Jun 22, 2022 · The long-percolating interest has resulted in the novel Edith, a reimagining of Somerville’s life in West Cork during the heady period around the War of Independence, and which Devlin will ...
Sep 27, 2017 · In September 1939, 81-year-old Edith Somerville wrote to an American friend about war developments in Europe, saying somewhat tongue in cheek that “Europe will never have peace until she...
