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Edith Somerville: A Biography
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Edith Somerville: A Biography

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Edith Somerville, 1858-1949, was the co-author, with her cousin Violet Martin, of The Irish RM stories and The Real Charlotte. Her life is illuminated by exceptionally rich collections of both written and photographic material. For the first time all these sources have been collated and the two writers placed in the context of their separate family lives. Edith Somerville’s determination to conceal biographical details from the first third of her life, before she met Violet Martin in 1886, has hitherto prevented a full understanding of her character. She was determined that her family home should survive as a working part of the new Ireland. To prevent land being lost by compulsory purchase, she later became a horse-dealer and an agricultural tenant of her brother. With her sister, she worked a dairy farm for more than three decades, influenced by Horace Plunkett and the ideals of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society. Somerville’s literary and artistic work was undertaken as an aside from engineering the survival of her family home: an understanding of how little time was spared for her writing and painting after 1895 justifies Molly Keane’s admiration of Somerville and Ross for achieving so much while being so restricted.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Country
Ireland
Date
1 January 2005
Pages
544
ISBN
9781851828630

Edith Somerville, 1858-1949, was the co-author, with her cousin Violet Martin, of The Irish RM stories and The Real Charlotte. Her life is illuminated by exceptionally rich collections of both written and photographic material. For the first time all these sources have been collated and the two writers placed in the context of their separate family lives. Edith Somerville’s determination to conceal biographical details from the first third of her life, before she met Violet Martin in 1886, has hitherto prevented a full understanding of her character. She was determined that her family home should survive as a working part of the new Ireland. To prevent land being lost by compulsory purchase, she later became a horse-dealer and an agricultural tenant of her brother. With her sister, she worked a dairy farm for more than three decades, influenced by Horace Plunkett and the ideals of the Irish Agricultural Organization Society. Somerville’s literary and artistic work was undertaken as an aside from engineering the survival of her family home: an understanding of how little time was spared for her writing and painting after 1895 justifies Molly Keane’s admiration of Somerville and Ross for achieving so much while being so restricted.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Four Courts Press Ltd
Country
Ireland
Date
1 January 2005
Pages
544
ISBN
9781851828630