The Novels of Somerville and Ross

Kreilkamp, Vera

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“…After Collis 1968, others have characterised their relationship as lesbian, like Stone and Thompson 2006, Wood 1994, and York 2002. Lewis (1985, the other hand, like Somerville's first biographer Cummins (1952), strongly negates the sexual nature of their relationship and defines it a sisterly kind of affection, rejecting any hint of sexual "deviance", and so do a number of other studies like those by Cahalan 1999, Cowman 1997, Kiberd 1996, Kreilkamp 2010, London 1999, O'Connor 2010, and Weekes 1990. The aim of my study is not to try to infer whether or not Somerville and Ross were homosexual.…”

Section: Somerville and Ross: The Fortuitous Holder Of The Penmentioning

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Exploring late Victorian (Co-)Authorship: Two Models of Popular Literary Collaboration

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2021

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The lively and competitive popular literary market of the late Victorian era provided fertile ground for the development of an unprecedented number of alliances between authors. Literary collaboration triggered writers and readers alike, and in the 1880s and 1890s it became a fashionable practice of popular literature. Two writing partnerships stood out: the English friends Walter Besant and James Rice, and the Anglo-Irish cousins Edith Somerville and Violet (Martin) Ross. Apparently similar, these partnerships do indeed share some points, but they were based on completely different understandings of what literary collaboration was and how it should be handled: Besant and Rice’s alliance was based on a clear, almost mechanical division of tasks, with one partner being the literary ‘genius’ and the other working as his assistant and manager – but still to be considered an author; Somerville and Ross’s collaboration was grounded on an intertwining of their selves during the creative process thanks to a conversational method – as they called it – which they described as the mixing of primary colours to create secondary ones. Drawing on a vast range of metadiscourses by these collaborators themselves, the present study compares the two ways of collaborating and reconstructs the authors’ perspective on their own activity, shedding light on how literary collaboration was defined and understood in the late Victorian era. This will also help to understand why such a widespread practice swiftly declined and why its products have since then sunk into oblivion.

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Section: Somerville and Ross: The Fortuitous Holder Of The Penmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring late Victorian (Co-)Authorship: Two Models of Popular Literary Collaboration

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The Novels of Somerville and Ross

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Exploring late Victorian (Co-)Authorship: Two Models of Popular Literary Collaboration

Exploring late Victorian (Co-)Authorship: Two Models of Popular Literary Collaboration

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