Somerville and Ross

Somerville and Ross
joint pseudonym of Edith Anna Oenone Somerville and Violet Florence Martin

born May 2, 1858, Corfu, Greece
died Oct. 8, 1949, Castlehaven, County Cork, Ire.

born June 11, 1862, Ross House, County Galway, Ire.
died Dec. 21, 1915, Cork, County Cork

Irish cousins and writers.

Somerville and Martin met in 1886; three years later they published their first novel, An Irish Cousin, under the names E.Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross. They cowrote a total of 14 books, including a collection of short stories, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899), that, with its sequels, was their most popular work. Their works wittily and sympathetically portrayed Irish society in the late 19th century. After Martin's death, Somerville continued to write under the joint name.

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▪ Irish writers
also called  E.Œ. Somerville  and  Martin Ross , pseudonyms of  Edith Anna Oenone Somerville  and  Violet Florence Martin 
Respectively,
 
born May 2, 1858, Corfu, Greece
died Oct. 8, 1949, Castlehaven, County Cork, Ire.
born June 11, 1862, Ross House, County Galway, Ire.
died Dec. 21, 1915, Cork, County Cork

      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. Edith Somerville continued to use their joint pseudonym after her cousin's death, claiming that she was still inspired by her.

      Violet Martin grew up in a genteel Protestant literary family living on a country estate, Ross House, in somewhat straitened finances. After her father's death in 1872, the family lived in Dublin, where she attended Alexandra College. Edith Somerville's father was a British army lieutenant colonel serving in Corfu who retired a year after her birth and returned the family to Drishane House in rural County Cork, where Somerville spent all her childhood. She studied briefly at Alexandra College and studied painting at studios in London, Düsseldorf, and Paris.

      The 27-year-old Somerville and the 23-year-old Martin first met on Jan. 17, 1886, and began a literary partnership that resulted three years later in their first book, An Irish Cousin (1889). By the time that Martin died in 1915 they had cowritten 14 books, including a powerful novel called The Real Charlotte (1894) and a collection of short stories, Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899), which, with its sequels, is their most popular work. After 1915 the Somerville and Ross name appeared on such Somerville works as Irish Memories (1917), Mount Music (1919), and The Big House of Inver (1925).

      During their life together, the cousins resided at Ross House and Drishane House but traveled frequently, abroad and at home. Both were excellent horse riders to the fox and hounds, and Martin suffered a serious hunting accident in 1898, from which she never fully recovered. In later years Somerville often traveled, visiting Denmark and France and joining her friend the English composer, author, and feminist Dame Ethel Mary Smyth in trips to Italy and the United States.

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