Amanda McKittrick
Ros 1860-1939
Born
in Drumaness, County Down. She is known as “the world’s worst
writer”. Her novels and poetry include Irene Iddesleigh, Delina Delaney,
Helen Huddleson, St Scandalbags and
Fumes of Formation. Her idiosyncratic writing attracted the likes of
Aldous Huxley, Louis MacNeice and Mark Twain and clubs sprang up in
Oxford, Cambridge, London and even America to enjoy her writing. She wrote
scathingly of lawyers and critics. She is buried in County Down.
Further information, location and directions to the
grave are to be found in "The End - An Illustrated Guide to the
Graves of Irish Writers". Click here
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