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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
Edith Somerville

Born: May 2, 1858
Died: October 8, 1949 (aged 91)
Bio: Edith Anna Œnone Somerville was an Irish novelist who habitually signed herself as "E. Œ. Somerville". She wrote in collaboration with her cousin "Martin Ross" under the pseudonym "Somerville and Ross".
Known for:
- The Real Charlotte (1894)
- An Irish Cousin (1889)
- In Mr. Knox's country (1915)
- All on the Irish Shore (1903)
- BigHouse of Inver