Violet Florence Martin - Edith Anna Somerville, Richard Martin (M.P.)

Violet Florence Martin (11 June 1862 21 December 1915) was an Irish author who co-wrote a series of novels with cousin Edith Somerville under the pen name of Martin Ross in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Martin was born at Ross House in Connemara, County Galway, the youngest of sixteen children of James Martin of Ross (1804 1872). The Martin family, a branch of the Martyn family - one of the Tribes of Galway - had settled at Ross by the early 17th century, having previously inhabited the town of Galway for some three hundred years. Her father, James, was a Protestant, his grandfather having converted from the Catholic faith in order to retain the family estates under the Penal Laws. Nevertheless, each child of the family was secretly 'baptised' by the family servants, a practise James Martin winked at.

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• Assisted by: Claus Matthias Benedict (Editor)
• Publisher: Betascript Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9786137884539
• ISBN: 9786137884539
• No. of pages: 144
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Letters, rhetoric