Roe, Owen and Honor Urse — By the Brown Bog

London, Longmans, Green And Co., printed by the Aberdeen Press, 1913. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy exemplar of a First Edition Thus, some of the stories having appeared first in the Badminton Magazine. Nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Moderately worn blue cloth over boards covers, sunning to spine, bumping to and scuffing of spine head and foot, toning to endpapers and pastedowns, ink-stamps of the previous library, a convent library in Leeds, England, and an embossed stamp from another previous owner, another convent, also in Leeds, England. Still, a moderately handsome tome, with a black-and-white cameo label to front label being of perhaps an equine-loving lady. Fetching stories of Irish life and sport, heavy focus on fox-hunting. Plentiful black-and-white silhouettes including at frontis, "The 'Boycotted harriers," tissue-protected, of a man and woman on horse engaged in a fox-hunt. It has been reported to me that "Owen Roe" and "Honor Urse" are pseudonyms for the twosome who published lots of short stories, E. OE. Somerville (Edith Somerville) and Martin Ross (Violet Martin), both born in the 1870s into deeply religious but Protestant (not Catholic) landowning families in Counties Cork and Galway, and who became famous singly and as a duo for depicting in literary forms, the ways in which Irish and English identities were manifest in revived literary forms (Anne Jamson, 2007), but now I ain't so sure; let me go down a few rabbit-holes. Other sources say that Owen Roe was the pen-name of Lionel Peel Yates and that Honor Mahon or Honor Goodhart later became Honor Urse. The literary critic Anne Jamison discourses upon Somerville and Ross’s legal cases against Owen Roe and Honor Urse claiming that the latter's By the Brown Bog (1913) had simply plagiarized Experiences of an Irish R.M. (1899). xi, 1-296 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good