History Creator / AmandaMcKittrickRos

* InTheStyleOf: [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]] noted that Ros wrote in the 16th century style of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism Euphuism]]. Susan Sontag decades later stated that Euphuism was the progenitor of {{camp}}, which would explain why literary greats found her writing so hilarious.

Anna Margaret Ross (8 December 1860 - 2 February 1939), known by her PenName Amanda [=McKittrick=] Ros, was an Irish writer. She wrote poetry and a number of novels, publishing her first novel, ''Irene Iddesleigh,'' in 1897.

* SpiritualSuccessor: These days, ''Literature/TheEyeOfArgon'' is the subject of the "who can read the longest along without laughing" game.

* ''Delina Delaney'' (novel)

* ''Helen Huddleson'' (posthumous novel)

* MayDecemberRomance: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]], if not [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], in ''Irene Iddesleigh''. The titular character is young, while John Dunfern is, as Ros puts it, "a man of forty summers".

In her first visit to Larne, she met Andrew Ross, a widower who worked as a station master there. They married on 30 August 1887, and Andrew financed for the publication of his wife's first novel, ''Irene Iddesleigh,'' thus starting her literary career. She took the PenName Amanda [=McKittrick=] Ros and went to write two more novels and a number of poems.

* InTheStyleOf: [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]] noted that Ros wrote in the 16th century style of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism Euphuism]]. Susan Sontag decades later stated that Euphuism was the progenitor of {{Camp}}, which would explain why literary greats found her writing so hilarious.

* RapeAsDrama: In ''Irene Iddlesleigh'', it's not clear whether a drunken Oscar Otwell raped the title character... or just said a lot of mean words to her.

She was born in Drumaness, County Down, on 8 December 1860 and was christened Anna Margaret [=McKittrick=] on 27 January 1861. Some time in the 1880's she attended Marlborough Teacher Training College in Dublin, was appointed Monitor at Millbrook National School, Larne, County Antrim, finished her training at Marlborough, and then became a qualified teacher at the same school.

* InTheStyleOf: [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]] noted that Ros wrote in the 16th century style of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism Euphuism]]. Creator/SusanSontag stated that Euphuism was the progenitor of {{Camp}}, which would explain why literary greats found her writing so hilarious.

* InTheStyleOf: Creator/AldousHuxley noted that Ros wrote in the 16th century style of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism Euphuism]]. Creator/SusanSontag stated that Euphuism was the progenintor of {{Camp}}, which would explain why literary greats found her writing so hilarious.

* VanityPublishing: All of her work was self-published, thanks to her doting husband. It goes without saying that this was the ''only'' way her books would ever see print. On a heartwarming note, she also personally thanked with an enclosed note each of the people who ordered a book from her.

In her first visit to Larne, she met Andrew Ross, a widower who worked as a station master there. They married on 30 August 1887, and Andrew financed for the publication of his wife's first novel Irene Iddesleigh, thus starting her literary career. She took the PenName Amanda [=McKittrick=] Ros and went to write two more novels and a number of poems.

Anna Margaret Ross (8 December 1860 - 2 February 1939), known by her PenName Amanda [=McKittrick=] Ros, was an Irish writer. She wrote poetry and a number of novels, publishing her first novel Irene Iddesleigh in 1897.

She was born in Drumaness, County Down, on 8 December 1860 and was christened Anna Margaret [=McKittrick=] on 27 January 1861. Some time in the 1880's she attended Marlborough Teacher Training College in Dublin, was appointed Monitor at Millbrook National School, Larne, County Antrim, finished her training at Marlborough and then became a qualified teacher at the same school.

->''I first read this sentence nearly three years ago. Since then, I have read it once a week in an increasingly desperate search for meaning. But I still don't understand it.''
-->--'''Nick Page''', ''In Search of the World's Worst Writers'', on the above sentence.

* CantTakeCriticism: Ros attacked her critics vociferously, calling them "bastard donkey-headed mites" and "[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal clay crabs of corruption]]".

* GiftedlyBad:
** When your works turn writers such as C. S. Lewis and Tolkien into ''trolls'', you are the possessor of a decidedly "special" talent.
** Huxley pointed out in his 1923 essay ''Euphues Redivivus'' how she managed to channel the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphuism Euphuist movement]] from Elizabethan times even though she in all likelihood never got the chance to study them.[[note]]The Movement was headed by John Lyly as well as Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whom some claim was the real author of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays -- like [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]].[[/note]]
--->“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. The first attempts of any people to be consciously literary are always productive of the most elaborate artificiality.”
** Contemporary critic Barry Pain stated she was "a thing that happens once in a million years. There is no one above it and no one beside it, and it sits alone as the nightingale sings."

* PetTheDog: Every reader who purchased a book directly from her also got a personally addressed note of thanks.

* SmallNameBigEgo: She asked her publisher if her books could win a Nobel Prize for Literature, "What think you of this prize? Do you think I should make a 'dart' for it?"

!!Tropes employed in her works:

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: An instance of a concept that bears close similarity is ordinary bungled orthography--"tête-à-têtes" was put down on the page as "tetè-a-tetès" in chapter IV of ''Irene Iddesleigh''. We lack certainty as to whether this was an error by the one who penned the tale or the one who set the type for the one who prepared the script for impressing the ink upon what would be folded and trimmed into the pages of the novels.[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke In Chapter 4 of ''Irene Iddesleigh'' the term "tête-à-têtes" was mistakenly written as "tetè-a-tetès". We don't know if Ros wrote it that way or if that were just her publisher.]][[/note]]

* AlliterativeTitle: All of her tomes: ''Irene Iddesleigh'', ''Delina Delaney'', ''Poems of Puncture'', ''Fumes of Formation'', and ''Helen Huddleson''.

** When your œuvres can transform such crafters of the written word as C. S. Lewis and Tolkien into ''trolls'', you are the possessor of a decidedly "special" talent.

* MayDecemberRomance: [[SubvertedTrope Not quite played as one would expect,]] in fact [[DownplayedTrope it may suffice to say that the temporal distance between their births is not so significant]], in ''Irene Iddesleigh''. The eponymous protagonist is but a young maiden, whereas her suitor John Dunfern is "a man of forty summers".

* ThemeNaming: In ''Helen Huddleson'', many personages of her device have names of a vegetal persuasion.[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke They're named after fruits.]][[/note]]

* YoureJustJealous: Her default retort to many of her critics. She even advanced the preposterous argument that one such critic, Barry Pain, came to her work presenting such an outrageous anger towards the words she had laid down on paper because he was afflicted with the same affectionate affliction as some of the heroes of her stories - of harboring romantic inclinations towards her, but unable to reveal his sentiments, feelings, affections, and hopes publicly.[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke She went as far as claiming critic Barry Pain was jealous of her talent only because he was secretly in love with her.]][[/note]]

Anna Margaret Ross (8 December 1860 - 2 February 1939), known by her PenName Amanda McKittrick Ros, was an Irish writer. She wrote poetry and a number of novels, publishing her first novel Irene Iddesleigh in 1897.

She was born in Drumaness, County Down, on 8 December 1860 and was christened Anna Margaret McKittrick on 27 January 1861. Some time in the 1880's she attended Marlborough Teacher Training College in Dublin, was appointed Monitor at Millbrook National School, Larne, County Antrim, finished her training at Marlborough and then became a qualified teacher at the same school.

In her first visit to Larne, she met Andrew Ross, a widower who worked as a station master there. They married on 30 August 1887, and Andrew financed for the publication of his wife's first novel Irene Iddesleigh, thus starting her literary career. She took the PenName Amanda McKittrick Ros and went to write two more novels and a number of poems.

Ros's literary work was not widely read and is considered to be SoBadItsGood, due to its PurpleProse. TheInklings, a group of authors whose names included Creator/JRRTolkien and Creator/CSLewis, held contests to see who could spend the most time reading her works without laughing.

The [[SoBadItsGood zenith of the nadir of the art of literary craftsmanship]], Amanda [=McKittrick=] Ros (1860-1939) penned [[PurpleProse prose of an extravagantly amethyst tint]], with [[{{Tragedy}} plots involving sorrow and the ruination of lives]].

[[NoSenseOfHumor Robbed, she was, of a self-perpendicular perception of the mirthfulness of her volcanic verbosity]], and those [[CausticCritic carping, craven, cack-handed criticasters]] who dared to draw the attention of the patient public to her [[MundaneMadeAwesome insignificant lapses from literary excellence]] never failed to [[BerserkButton draw the livid lightning of her righteous wrath]].

UsefulNotes/TheInklings, a gathering of wordsmiths whose ranks included Creator/CSLewis and Creator/JRRTolkien, had a roaring time with the attempt to see who could go through these works of hers and [[{{Corpsing}} hold back mirth for more time than others]]. Also among the ranks of her detractors the world over were Creator/MarkTwain and [[Literature/BraveNewWorld Aldous Huxley]], the latter of whom explicitly compared her to the Euphuists from whom she was removed by at least three centuries and whose style she somehow managed to independently emulate even though she was by no means of a background wealthy enough to have even studied them.

!!Tomes crafted by her pen:
* ''Literature/IreneIddesleigh'' (a tale of some length)
* ''Delina Delaney'' (a tale of some length)
* ''Poems of Puncture'' (containing verse of her crafting)
* ''Fumes of Formation'' (containing verse of her crafting)
* ''Helen Huddleson'' (a tale of some length that was never prepared for the machines to press letters upon paper in patterns identical to what she had herself pressed to paper for it while her body yet had blood and neural signals flowing through it, occurring as such only one and a half score revolutions about the sun after all such activity within her mortal vessel abruptly ceased[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke Translation: A novel that was only published about 30 years after she died]][[/note]])

-->"She tried hard to keep herself a stranger to her poor old father’s slight income by the use of the finest production of steel, whose blunt edge eyed the reely covering with marked greed, and offered its sharp dart to faultless fabrics of flaxen fineness."[[note]]Translation: She worked as a seamstress so she wouldn't have to live on her father's money.[[/note]]

* ''Irene Iddesleigh'' (a tale of some length)

* PurpleProse: Bow to the Queen & Empress of the Hogwash Guild[[note]]a title bestowed on her by none other than Creator/MarkTwain[[/note]].

** Huxley pointed out in his 1923 essay ''Euphues Redivivus'' how she managed to channel the Euphuist[[note]]an artificial, highly elaborate way of writing or speaking[[/note]] movement from Elizabethan times even though she in all likelihood never got the chance to study them.[[note]]The Movement was headed by John Lyly as well as Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whom some claim was the real author of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays -- like [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]].[[/note]]

** Huxley pointed out in his 1923 essay ''Euphues Redivivus'' how she managed to channel the Euphuist movement from Elizabethan times even though she in all likelihood never got the chance to study them.[[note]]The Movement was headed by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, whom some claim was the real author of Creator/WilliamShakespeare's plays -- like [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Tom Servo]].[[/note]]

** Huxley pointed out in his 1923 essay ''Euphues Redivivus'' how she managed to channel the Euphuist movement from Elizabethan times even though she in all likelihood never got the chance to study them.