Somerville and Ross: The World of the Irish R. M. - Softcover

Lewis, Gifford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 014008262X ISBN 13: 9780140082623

Publisher: Penguin Books, 1988

Synopsis

Somerville and Ross were two extraordinary Irish writers. 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, 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. The book also provides a picture of the two women's often surprising reactions to home rule, and presents us in particular Edith Somerville in the fascinating alternative guises of master of fox hounds, spiritualist, artist and practical feminist.

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From Publishers Weekly

The Anglo-Irish world popularized in the PBS-TV series The Irish R.M. was the world of the two people who wrote about it, Edith Somerville and Violet Martin (the pseudonymous Martin Ross). Cousins born into the Anglo-Irish gentry, they embarked on a joint writing career, unusual for women in the late 19th century. Their enormously popular stories juxtaposed the comic and the serious, capturing the dialect of the servants who ministered in the vast, drafty houses of their "betters." Even after Martin's death in 1915, Somerville continued to list her cousin's name as collaborator. This unique relationship is here explored in letters, diaries and photographs that not only limn the separate and entwined lives of two talented women but also illumine a vanished world. Lewis, a British writer, has previously published books on Scots and Irish genealogy and paleography. (May 6pThis is a compilation of interviews on corporate ethics conducted by Freudberg for National Public Radio. From twin perspectives of Watergate-related and other business scandals in the 1970s and of the growing employee-and-public participatory mode of American enterprise, these interviews explore in depth, and at great length, the reexaminations of social values and evolving reform experienced by such disparate firms as Lockheed, Johnson & Johnson, Sun Company, Levi Strauss and RCA. The discussions of public safety, environmental concerns, employee motivation, layoffs, community relations, etc., reveal uncertainties among managers on the specifics of ethical norms. At the same time, the reader perceives an expanding industrial awareness of individual worth and social rights as ingredients of corporate success.
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Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 014008262X
• ISBN 13: 9780140082623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256