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Amanda McKittrick Ros (1860–1939) (born Anna Margaret McKittrick, later on Anna Ross) was an Irish writer. Several, including Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, and Wyndham Lewis considered her writing to be divertingly bad. Her novels were ab initio published privately.

Her number one novel, Irene Iddesleigh, was reviewed by humourist Barry Pain who sarcastically known as it "the book of the century." Ros retorted by calling Anguish the "clay crab of corruption." Ros can be considered to will have a endure laugh, for her fame has outlasted his; moreover, she manufactured plenty money from either her 2nd novel, Delina Delaney, to build the home, which she known as Iddeleigh.

Nick Home, creator of ''Around Seek of the Globe's Worst Writers,'' rated her a worst of the worst. He says that "For Amanda, eyes are 'piercing orbs', legs are 'bony supports', people do not blush, they are 'touched by the hot hand of bewilderment.'"

Aldous Huxley wrote that "In Mrs. Ros we see, as we see in the Elizabethan novelists, the result of the discovery of art by an unsophisticated mind and of its first conscious attempt to produce the artistic. It is remarkable how late in the history of every literature simplicity is invented.... This is how she tells us that Delina earned money by doing needlework:

Her novel Delina Delaney begins:

Page comments: "I personally number 1 scan this phrase about 3 years ago. Since so, We've see it when the week inside an more and more desperate look for for meaning. However We however don't see it."

A poet as well as a novelist, Ros wrote Poems of Puncture and Fumes of Formation. The latter contains "Camping Westminster Abbey," which opens:

As of 2004, none of her works are in print. Her books are rare and first editions command prices of $300 to $800 in the used-book market.

Bibliography
Irene Iddesleigh (novel, 1897) Delina Delaney (novel, 1898) Poems of Puncture (poetry, 1912) Fumes of Formation (poetry, 1933) Helen Huddleston (posthumous novel)

Jack Loudan (1954) O Rare Amanda!: The Life of Amanda McKittrick Ros (London: Chatto & Windus 1954)

The Oasis of Futurity
Pages devoted to the turn of the century author.






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