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Irene Iddesleigh

Irene Iddesleigh

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Number of Chapters: 19

Length: 3 hours and 55 minutes

Language: English

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 Visiting Westminster Abbey which begins:

Holy Moses!
Take a look!
Flesh decayed in every nook!
Some rare bits of brain lie here,
Mortal loads of beef and beer.

The best account of her life available on the web is probably http://oddbooks.co.uk/amanda/life.html. C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien and The Inklings were admirers and held competitions to see who could read her work for the longest time whist keeping a straight face. Sadly, all her books are now out of print but command high prices on the rare books market.

Irene Iddesleigh, her first book, is a romantic novel, telling the common story of an unhappy, doomed marriage. The prose style however is unique. (Summary by AJM)

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01 - Chapter I (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
02 - Chapter II (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
03 - Chapter III (Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023))
04 - Chapter IV (Kara Shallenberg (1969-2023))
05 - Chapter V (Sarika Pawar)
06 - Chapter VI (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
07 - Chapter VII (TriciaG)
08 - Chapter VIII (TriciaG)
09 - Chapter IX (ToddHW)
10 - Chapter X (ToddHW)
11 - Chapter XI (Chuck Williamson)
12 - Chapter XII (Chuck Williamson)
13 - Chapter XIII (A. J. Carroll)
14 - Chapter XIV (A. J. Carroll)
15 - Chapter XV (Patti Cunningham)
16 - Chapter XVI (Patti Cunningham)
17 - Chapter XVII (Patti Cunningham)
18 - Chapter XVIII (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
19 - Chapter XIX (Andy Minter (1934-2017))
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