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Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone, (1858-1949), writer

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Alternative name(s):
  • Geilles Herring (Pseudonym)
Surname: Somerville
Forenames: Edith Anna Oenone
Gender: Female
Date: 1858-1949
Biography: ODNB link for Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone (1858-1949) Writer called Geilles Herring and Somerville
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P126186 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P26692 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Edith Anna Oenone Somerville
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and literary papers
See information in published source
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
2
1879-1946: corresp and papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to Irish Manuscripts Commission
NRA 40903 Somerville
3
1893: notebook
Trinity College Dublin
See Annual Return 1996
4
corresp and papers
Queens University, Belfast
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
5
1899-1915: MS of 'The House of Fahy' and 'The shooting of Shinroe', written with 'Martin Ross', pseudonym of Violet Martin
National Library of Ireland
See Annual Return 2004
6
1890-1947: corresp and literary MSS (32 items)
Harvard University: Houghton Library
NRA 20129 Harvard Univ MSS

See NUC MS 84-1956
7
c1916-49: letters (366) to Geraldine Cummins
Queens University, Belfast
See Friends of National Libraries report 1984 pp9-10
8
1925-39: letters (10) to Longmans, Green & Co
University of Reading: Special Collections
See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
9
1942-46: corresp with Thomas McGreevy
Trinity College Dublin
NRA 23148 McGreevy
10
1896-1902: letters (11) to her literary agent JB Pinker
National Library of Ireland
NRA 19217 Trinity Coll Dublin

See Location register of 20th century English literary MSS 1988
11
1909-49: corresp with Society of Authors
British Library, Manuscript Collections
12
1899-1948: corresp
Trinity College Dublin
NRA 23151 Somerville
13
c1880-1950: additional papers
Trinity College Dublin
See Annual Return 2010