'Only Goodnight, beloved, not farewell'
After Ross’s early death in 1915, Somerville began a spiritual correspondence with her deceased cousin and literary collaborator and published a further 14 books under the dual signature of ‘E. OE. Somerville and Martin Ross’
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Amateur Theatricals
Somerville and Ross were both keen amateur dramatists. In 1874 Somerville wrote her own rhyming verse Pantomimic play, ‘Choral’, based on the fairy tale, ‘Sleeping Beauty’. ‘Choral’ was first performed in 1887 by the Somerville and Coghill families in Castletownshend’s Village Hall and Somerville later revised the play in September 1916 to be performed at her home, Drishane House. Somerville and Ross also appear to have taken a keen interest in the plays staged by the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and Ross, in particular, attended several Abbey and other Revivalist productions between 1901 and 1905 (and then again in 1909 with Somerville) at the behest of Lady Gregory.
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1858-1949
At Home and Abroad
Between 1890 and 1893, Somerville and Ross made at least four significant tours, through Connemara (1890), Bordeaux (1891), Wales (1893), and Denmark (1893). They subsequently published account of these journeys in various periodicals and at least three of them eventually ended up in book form. They both later made a tour of the Aran Islands in 1895, which Ross originally wrote up for Harper’s magazine and then republished as “An Outpost of Ireland” in Some Irish Yesterdays (1906). Somerville made three more significant tours after Ross’s death in 1915, one to Sicily (1920), one to Spain in (1926) (sic), and one to the United States (1928).
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Edith Œnone Somerville c. 1946
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‘Sometimes it has been hard to believe in the return of the happy days we used to know. But we could not forget them, and remembrance had assurance in it, and asserted that they were only shadowed or hidden for a time. The stories of Horses and of Hounds, the Trials of Travel and Tea-parties, still had fun I them. Even writing of them during those past dark days had fun in it and kept hope alive…’
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Edith Somerville & Martin Ross graves, Castletownshend, Co Cork
The Irish R.M
Novel
In the summer of 1913, Somerville and Ross attempted to bring to court a case of plagiarism against Owen Roe and Honor Urse, authors of a collection of Irish short stories entitled By the Brown Big (1913). Somerville and Ross accused Roe and Urse of lifting passages, characters, and ideas from their Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899). The dispute was eventually settled out of court by halting sales of By the Brown Bog and altering its content in line with Somerville and Ross’s objections.
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The Suffragettes
The National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies was founded in 1897, and in 1910 Somerville became the first President of the Munster Women’s Franchise League (MWFL) with Ross as one of her Vice-Presidents. In the first year of their presidency, Somerville and Ross organised 16 meetings of the Franchise League in Cork, Waterford, Bandon, and Skibbereen, as well as establishing two further branches of the league in Waterford and Skibbereen.
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