Irene Iddesleigh
Author: first_name: Amanda McKittrick
last_name: Ros
Language: English
Year: 1897

Amanda McKittrick Ros, a Northern Irish writer, did for the novel what William McGonagall did for poetry and Florence Foster Jenkins for the coloratura voice. She published a number of novels (all at her own expense) and in addition to being a novelist was a poet, her best known being <em>Visiting Westminster Abbey</em> which begins:<br><br>
Holy Moses!<br>
Take a look!<br>
Flesh decayed in every nook!<br>
Some rare bits of brain lie here,<br>
Mortal loads of beef and beer.<br><br>
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