Two Irish Girls in Bohemia: The Drawings and Writings of E.E. Somerville and Martin Ross

by Julie Anne Stevens

This book is about the struggle to create art, and it brings to life the risks and delights women artists faced from 1880 until WWI. It focuses on Edith Somerville, her cousin Martin Ross (Violet Martin), and the Anglo-Irish network that supported, but also constrained, them. It describes their reactions to a modernizing world - including their introducing of the bicycle to Connemara - and reveals the extent to which they responded to the art and literature of the day, especially Irish writers like Wilde, Lady Gregory, Yeats, and George Moore. The sketchbooks and other ephemeral material - such as first drafts of Somerville and Ross's great realist novel, The Real Charlotte (1894), correspondence, children's books and cartoon strips - will bring you right to the height of the belle epoque. With 64 pages of color plates, notes, bibliography, index, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0995523940
• ISBN13: 9780995523944
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Somerville Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.4"