Amanda McKittrick Ros was an Irish author who wrote during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born Anna Margaret McKittrick, she later adopted her pen name and became known for her highly unusual approach to the English language. Critics and readers have frequently characterized her as a writer who possessed an immense power of words, though paired with an incredibly uncertain and eccentric use of them.\n\nHer literary career began in earnest with the publication of her first novel, Irene Iddesleigh, which she published at her own expense in 1897. Despite its obscure self-published origins, the novel eventually found a wider audience and was reprinted by the Nonesuch Press in 1926, a release that sold out immediately. In addition to her debut novel, Ros authored a number of other novels and collections of poetry throughout her life, cementing her unique place in Irish literary history.
