This book is about the struggle to create art, and it brings to life the risks and delights women artists faced from 1880 until WWI. It focuses on Edith Somerville, her cousin Martin Ross (Violet Martin), and the Anglo-Irish network that supported, but also constrained, them. It describes their reactions to a modernizing world - including their introducing of the bicycle to Connemara - and reveals the extent to which they responded to the art and...