Research Catalog

Title

Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers, 1886-1938.

Author

Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cummins, Geraldine Dorothy, 1890-
• Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.
• Hudson, Elizabeth.
• Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932.
• Ross, Martin, 1862-1915.
• Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936.
• Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.
• James B. Pinker and Son.

Description

308 items.

Subjects

• Correspondence
• Somerville, E. Œ (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949 > Portraits

Genre/Form

Correspondence.

Biography (note)

• Edith OEnone Somerville was an Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and illustrator.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Provenance (note)

• This is a synthetic collection, created from materials acquired through gift and purchase from various sources. Previous owners include Elizabeth Hudson and Violet Martin.

Processing Action (note)

• Cataloged

Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Somerville

Author

Somerville, E. Œ. (Edith Œnone), 1858-1949.

Title

Edith OEnone Somerville collection of papers, 1886-1938.

Summary

This is a synthetic collection consisting of manuscripts, correspondence, portraits, and pictorial works. The manuscripts include stories, essays, portions and drafts of novels, and reviews by the author, as well as poems and novel plots by her cousin and collaborator Violet Florence Martin (a.k.a. Martin Ross). The correspondence includes letters from the author, dating from 1886 to 1938, to Lady Isabella Augusta Persse Gregory, Violet Martin, Ethel Mary Smyth, the literary agency James B. Pinker and Son, and others, as well as letters relating to the author, dating from 1901 to 1951, between various correspondents, including Geraldine Cummins, Elizabeth Hudson, Violet Martin, Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett, Sir Owen Seaman, James B. Pinker and Son, and others. There are letters to Somerville from Violet Florence Martin dating from 1886 to 1912.

Biography

Edith OEnone Somerville was an Irish short-story writer, novelist, essayist, and illustrator.

Indexes

Inventory list and card catalog available in repository.

Local Note

Creation of collection-level record funded with the generous support of the Gladys Kreible Delmas Foundation.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Cummins, Geraldine Dorothy, 1890-

Gregory, Lady, 1852-1932.

Hudson, Elizabeth.

Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir, 1854-1932.

Ross, Martin, 1862-1915.

Seaman, Owen, Sir, 1861-1936.

Smyth, Ethel, 1858-1944.

Hudson, Elizabeth. Former owner

Ross, Martin, 1862-1915. Former owner

James B. Pinker and Son.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll MSS Somerville