The Real Charlotte

The Real Charlotte
First edition in three volumes
AuthorSomerville and Ross
Working titleThe Welsh Cousin
LanguageEnglish
Genreromance novel, novel of manners, domestic realism[1]
Set inDublin, 1883
County Galway, Bray, County Wicklow and Paris, June 1889–June 1890
PublisherWard and Downey
Publication date
1894
Publication placeIreland
Media typePrint: hardback
Pages3 volumes
823.8
LC ClassPR6037 .O6
Preceded byThrough Connemara in a Governess Cart 
Followed byBeggars on Horseback 
Edition notice from a 1915 edition, with a dual monograms of E.Œ.S. and M.R.

The Real Charlotte is a novel (written between 1888 and 1890, and published in 1894) by the Anglo-Irish writing partnership Somerville and Ross, composed of Edith Somerville (1858–1949) and Violet Florence Martin (1862–1915).[2][3][4][5][6]

Photograph of Edith Somerville (left) and Violet Florence Martin (right)

The first printing in 1894 consisted of three volumes containing a total of 51 chapters. The three volumes were reprinted in a single volume in 1895, with many further single-volume reprints in the following years.

  1. ^ "Book Review: The Real Charlotte". colcannon.com.
  2. ^ McNamara, Donald (2006). "The Real Charlotte: The Exclusive Myth of Somerville and Ross". Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium. 26/27: 356–369. JSTOR 40732066.
  3. ^ McClellan, Ann (6 April 2006). "Dialect, Gender, and Colonialism in The Real Charlotte". Études irlandaises. 31 (1): 69–86. doi:10.3406/irlan.2006.1739.
  4. ^ Somerville, Edith; Ross, Martin (5 October 1999). The Real Charlotte. J.S. Sanders Books. ISBN 9781461733935 – via Google Books.
  5. ^ Stevens, Julie Anne (6 April 2007). The Irish Scene in Somerville and Ross. Irish Academic Press. ISBN 9780716533672 – via Google Books.
  6. ^ Jamison, Anne (6 April 2016). E. Œ. Somerville and Martin Ross: Female Authorship and Literary Collaboration. Cork University Press. ISBN 9781782051923 – via Google Books.