Dr E. Ϊ. Somerville. A Biography... By Geraldine Cummins. Being the First Biography...

London, Andrew Dakers Limited. "First published 1952". First Edition. Title continues: of the leading member of the famous literary partnership of E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross with a New Bibliography of First Editions compiled by Robert Vaughan and a Preface by Lennox Robinson Litt.D.' "We Irish" (as Bishop Berkeley would say) "are apt to swagger a bit... and so when in the eighteen-nineties or thereabouts there came a little burst of Irish writing, poetry, prose, and the drama, we must needs label it "The Irish Renaissance." ...My brief preface to Edith Somerville's life is not an attempt to write a history of modern Irish politics nor even to evaluate the poetry, plays, and novels written during those fifty years, but I want to note the important part women writers played in that "Renaissance." (Lennox Robinson). Chapters include Two Irish Cousins, A friendship and literary partnership; Some Literary Celebrities (Yeats, G. B. S. The founding of the Irish Academy of Letters); The Sale of Manuscripts (The Fairies Return. Psychic research. Edith's Celtic ancestry); A Visit to America (The fame of Somerville and Ross in America. The Duchess of Windsor); George Moore and Sargent (Edith's portrait painting. Elgar's music); Death of a Friend (Dame Ethel Smythe). Hard Cover. xv, 271 pages, portrait front., 1 portrait plate; 22 cm. Green cloth, spine stamped in black; spine faded, bottom end worn, tiny tear in top end; pencil owner initials; no dj; VG. stock#101330.