They had up to this time travelled extensively, living for months at a time in Paris. Several years of partial invalidism were faced by Violet Martin as a result of her accident, but the joint household flourished and continued to produce literary works. Sadly Violet Martin died in 1915 at the age of fifty.

After her death Dr. Somerville wrote IRISH MEMORIES in honor of their life together. The extreme importance their relationship played in their lives and works is best expressed by Dr. Somerville's own words describing their first meeting: "It was the hinge of my life, the place whore my fate, and hors, turned over." Dr. Somerville lived to be very old, dying in 1949. She continued to write, but published all of her subsequent books under the name, "Somerville and Ross." Long after the death of Violet Martin, Dr. Somerville wrote: "In whatever, during the so later years, I have written, I have known her help and have thankfully received her inspiration. She has gone, but our collaberation has not ended."

Bibliography:

Twentieth Century Authors edited by Stanley J. Kunitz,

H. W. Wilson Co., 1942

First Supplement to above, 1955

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