Somerville and Ross (Edith Anna OE. Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, writing under the name Martin Ross) were an Anglo-Irish writing team. They are most known for a series of three books depicting the (mis)adventures of an Irish Resident Magistrate-known collectively as The Irish R.M., which was made into a television series. Their novel The Real Charlotte is considered a masterpiece of Irish literature. Malcolm Jones is the author of the memoir Little Boy Blues and an editor and writer for The Daily Beast where he covers books, music, and photography.
"A masterpiece of Irish literature of the Victorian Age."-The
Guardian
The Real Charlotte has always seemed to me to be the most
substantial and powerful Anglo-Irish novel of the last half of the
nineteenth century."-V. S. Pritchett
"Superb Anglo-Irish prose, at once correct and free, vivid,
cultivated, and gracious. Hardly a paragraph without some magically
arresting phrase or image."-Colin Welch
The...portrait of scheming Charlotte herself, a really bad woman,
has a kind of Balzacian power."-The Irish Times
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