biography
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Somerville, Edith (Anna Oenone)
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published under the name Somerville and Ross
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| female
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| (1858–1949)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Corfu, Greece, the daughter of an army officer. As a baby, she returned to her family home in Co Cork, Ireland. She studied painting in London, Düsseldorf, and Paris, and became a magazine illustrator. With her cousin, Violet Florence Martin (pseudonym, Martin Ross), she began a literary partnership under their pseudonym. Starting with An Irish Cousin (1889), they completed 14 works together, including The Real Charlotte (1894), Some Experiences of an Irish RM (1899), and In Mr Knox's Country (1915). After Violet's death in 1915, Edith continued to write under their pseudonym, producing Irish Memoirs (1917) and The Big House at Inver (1925). |
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