Somerville and Ross

Somerville and Ross (Edith Somerville and Violet Florence Martin, writing under the name Martin Ross) were an Anglo-Irish writing team, perhaps most famous for their series of books that were made into the TV series The Irish R.M..

The various stories concern the life of an Anglo-Irish former British Army officer recently appointed as a resident magistrate (R.M.)

Somerville and Ross also wrote other work together, including the novel The Real Charlotte (1894), considered their masterpiece.

Even after the death of "Ross" in 1915, Somerville continued to write and publish stories under their joint names, claiming that the two were still in contact.

The precise nature of their relationship – whether they were romantic and sexual partners as well as literary collaborators and friends – has been the object of speculation by later writers.