page_title: Somerville and Ross
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caption_attribution_description: English: Identifier: irishmemories00some (find matches) Title: Irish memories Year: 1919 (1910s) Authors: Somerville, E. . (Edith none), 1858-1949 Subjects: Ross, Martin, 1862-1915 Martin, Violet Florence, 1865-1915 Ireland -- Social life and customs Publisher: New York&#160;: Longmans, Green and Co. Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: me foes, this is a mistake,akin to being heroic at a dentists. However, thequestion need not now be discussed. That An Irish Cousin had satisfied Messrs.Bentleys expectations was evidenced by a letter fromMr. R. Bentley in October, 1889, in which he suggestedthat we should write a three-volume novel for them,and offered us £100 down and £125 on the second 500copies. We were then at work on a short novel thatwe had been commissioned to write. This was Naboths Vineyard, which, after various adven-tures, was first published by Spencer Blackett, inOctober, 1891. The story had had a preliminarycanter in the Ladys Pictorial Christmas number asa short story, which we called Slide Number 42.It was sufficiently approved of to encourage us tofill it up and make a novel of it. As a book it has hada curious career. We had sold the copyright withoutreservation, and presently it was passed on to Mr.Blackett. We next heard of it in the hands of Griffithand Farran. Then it appeared as a yellow-back Text Appearing After Image: o a s&gt; &lt;►J w XIfi &lt;o TOURS, IDLE TOURS 211 at 2.9. Tauclinitz then produced it; finally, not verylong ago, a friend sent us a copy, bound rather like amanual of devotion, with silver edges to the pages,which she had bought, new, for 4id.&#160;; which makes onefear that Ahabs venture had not turned out too well.It was a story of the Land League, and the actors init were all of tlie peasant class. It was very wellreviewed, and was, in fact, treated by the Olympians,the Spectator, the Saturday Review, the Times, etc.,with a respect and a seriousness that almost alarmedus. It seemed that we had been talking prose withoutknowing it, and we were so gratified by the discoverythat we decided forthwith to abandon all distractionsand plunge solemnly, and with single-hearted industry,into the construction of the three-volume novel desiredby Messrs. Bentley. This was not, however, as simple a matter as itseemed, and the way was far from clear. I was doingillustrations for a childrens story Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Somerville and 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.. The television series is based on stories drawn from Some Experiences of an Irish RM, Further Experiences of an Irish RM and In Mr Knox's Country. The various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate in Ireland, which at that stage was still wholly a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, some years before its partition into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.
  Somerville and Ross also wrote other work together, including the novel The Real Charlotte, considered their masterpiece. Even after the death of "Ross" in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish stories under their joint names, claiming that the two were still in contact. The Big House of Inver, a novel of 1925, falls into that category.
  The precise nature of their relationship — whether they were romantic and sexual partners as well as literary collaborators and friends — has been the object of speculation by later writers.
context_section_description: 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..  The television series is based on stories drawn from Some Experiences of an Irish RM, Further Experiences of an Irish RM and In Mr Knox's Country. The various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate (R.M.) in Ireland, which at that stage was still wholly a part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, some years before its partition into the Irish Free State (now the Republic of Ireland) and Northern Ireland.
  Somerville and Ross also wrote other work together, including the novel The Real Charlotte (1894), considered their masterpiece. Even after the death of "Ross" in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish stories under their joint names, claiming that the two were still in contact. The Big House of Inver, a novel of 1925, falls into that category.
  The precise nature of their relationship — whether they were romantic and sexual partners as well as literary collaborators and friends — has been the object of speculation by later writers.
caption: Photograph of Edith Somerville (left) and Violet Florence Martin (right), from Irish Memories (1919)
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