Edith Anna Somerville
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Edith Œnone Somerville (May 2, 1858 – October 8, 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" and together the published a series of fourteen stories and novels, the most popular of which was The Experiences of an Irish R. M., published in 1899.
Following Martin's death in 1915, Somerville continued to write as Somerville and Ross, claiming that they were still in contact through a spiritualist séances.
Born on Corfu, the eldest of eight children, Somerville received her primary educated at home, later studying art in Paris in 1884 and at the Royal Westminster School of Art in London. She had exhibitions of her pictures in Dublin and in London between 1920-38; and was active as an illustrator of children's picture books and sporting picture books. Somerville was a devoted sportswoman who, in 1903 became master of the West Carbery Foxhounds. She was also a member of the Women's suffrage movement.
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[edit] Collaborative Novels
- An Irish Cousin (1889)
- Naboth's Vineyard (1891)
- In the Vine Country (1893)
- Through Connemara in a Governess Cart (1893)
- The Real Charlotte (1894)
- Beggars on Horseback (1895)
- The Silver Fox (1897)
- Some Experiences of an Irish R. M. (1899)
- A Patrick's Day Hunt (1902)
- All on the Irish Shore (1903)
- Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1908)
- Dan Russell the Fox (1911)
- In Mr Knox's Country (1915)
[edit] Solo Novels
- Irish Memories (1917)
- Mount Music (1919)
- The Big House at Inver (1925)
- The States through Irish Eyes (1930)
- An Incorruptible Irishman (1932)
- The Sweet Cry of Hounds (1936)
- The Death of the Heart (1938)
- Sarah's Youth (1938)
- The Heat of the Day (1949)
- Maria and Some Other Dogs (1949)
