Edith Somerville

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Edith Somerville

Irish writer

Also known as: E. Œ. Somerville, Edith Anna Oenone Somerville(Show More)

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Edith Somerville’s father was a British army lieutenant colonel serving in Corfu who retired a year after her birth and returned the family to Drishane House in rural County Cork, where Somerville spent all her childhood. She studied briefly at Alexandra College and studied painting…
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Edith Somerville’s father was a British army lieutenant colonel serving in Corfu who retired a year after her birth and returned the family to Drishane House in rural County Cork, where Somerville spent all her childhood. She studied briefly at Alexandra College and studied painting…
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