The Irish Scene in Somerville and Ross

by Julie Anne Stevens

Ireland's foremost female writers of the nineteenth century, Edith Somerville and Martin Ross, advocated the 'High Art of Comedy' during the period of transition and turbulence in the Irish countryside. This critical biography of their collaboration, from 1890 to Martin Ross's death in 1915, studies the self-conscious artistry of the creators of the finest novel of the nineteenth century The Real Charlotte (1894). It considers the influence of both...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716533677
• ISBN13: 9780716533672
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 287 Pages