History Creator / AmandaMcKittrickRos

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

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

* GiftedlyBad: 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.

* SmallNameBigEgo: She asked her publisher if her books could win a Nobel Prize, not quite understanding what the award was for. "What think you of this prize? Do you think I should make a 'dart' for it?"

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 Creator/AldousHuxley, 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.

* 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]]

* 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.
* ThemeNaming: In ''Helen Huddleson'', many personages of her device have names of a vegetal persuasion.
* VanityPublishing: All of her work was self-published, thanks to her doting husband. It goes without saying, 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.
* YoureJustJealous: Her default retort to many of her critics. She even accused a critic named Barry Pain of being so hostile to her prose only because he was secretly in love with her.

* ThemeNaming: In ''Helen Huddleston'', many personages of her device have names of a vegetal persuasion.

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]].

* ''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 30 years 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]])

* ''Helen Huddleson'' (a tale of some length)

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]].

The Inklings, a gathering of wordsmiths whose ranks included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, had a roaring time with the attempt to see who could go through these works of hers and hold back mirth for more time than others.

The Inklings, a gathering of wordsmiths whose ranks included C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien, had a roaring time with the attempt to see who could go through these works of hers and hold back mirth for more time than others. [[http://www.nickpage.co.uk/worstweb/ros/ros.html Some of her specialties]]:

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

* PurpleProse: Bow to the queen.

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

* AddedAlliterativeAppeal

* MeaninglessMeaningfulWords

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

-->-Opening lines of ''Delina Delaney''

-->-Nick Page, ''In Search of the World's Worst Writers'', on the above sentence.

Tomes crafted by her pen:

!Tropes employed in her works

* ThemeNaming: In ''Helen Huddleston'', many personages of her device have names of a vegetal persuasion.