Somerville & Ross: A Critical Appreciation - Hardcover
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- PublisherSt. Martin
- Publication date1980
- ISBN 10 0717109348
- ISBN 13 9780717109340
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Somerville & Ross: a critical appreciation / Hilary Robinson
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Book Description First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Pages slightly tanned as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 217 pages; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Ross, Martin 1862-1915 Criticism and interpretation. Somerville, E. . (Edith none) 1858-1949 Criticism and interpretation. Authorship Collaboration History 19th century. Ireland in literature. Women and literature Ireland History 19th century. Genre: History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 325348
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Somerville & Ross: a critical appreciation / Hilary Robinson
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Book Description First Edition. Near fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Pages slightly tanned as with age. Remains well-preserved overall. Physical description: 217 pages; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Ross, Martin 1862-1915 Criticism and interpretation. Somerville, E. . (Edith none) 1858-1949 Criticism and interpretation. Authorship Collaboration History 19th century. Ireland in literature. Women and literature Ireland History 19th century. Genre: History. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 325348
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Somerville and Ross A Critical Appreciation
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ISBN 10: 0717109348
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. SOMERVILLE AND ROSS A Critical Appreciation. Hilary Robinson. Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1980 First Edition ISBN 0717109348 218pp Hardback. Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. Second cousins and products of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy world, they reacted both with and against their environment to present in their books a deceptively indulgent view of the Irish and English. The reality of their lives was somewhat different. Each was gifted, but it was only in combination that they could fulfil their true potential. When Martin Ross died in 1915 as a result of a riding accident, Edith continued, through spiritual communication, to see herself as collaborating with her dead cousin, whose name she never ceased to add to the title page of her books. Edith Somerville in the fascinating alternative guises of master of fox hounds, spiritualist, artist and practical feminist. Born into land-owning Protestant families in the South West of Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, Edith Oenone Somerville (1858-1949) and Violet Martin (1862-1915), wrote in partnership as Somerville and Ross. Their novels and short stories intimately detail the social and political conditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century in Ireland. They produced one of the most popular and best-selling series of comic Irish short stories of its time - the Irish R.M. tales (1899-1914) - as well as one of Ireland's most critically acclaimed novels to date, The Real Charlotte (1894). After Ross's death, Somerville received messages from her via 'automatic writing', and used this spiritual communication to continue their literary collaboration. The main success of Somerville and Ross is percieved by many as comic writers but Hilary Robinson argues that their wit was sharper and more critical than anything that gave rise to the stage Irishman. Their main target was the Protestant Anglo Irish and there was no malice in their attitude to the ordinary people whose dialect they captured with remarkable skill. This copy is in FINE condition with no marks or inscriptions in an unclipped FINE dustwrapper. Ref K1. Seller Inventory # 002949
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