Jack Loudan

AMKR was a friend of Jack Loudan , who completed her last novel, Helen Huddleson, after her death and who wrote her biography. She corresponded regularly for ten years with T. S. Mercer after...

At St John's College, Cambridge , for instance, there flourished an Amanda Ros Club, whose members amused themselves by trying to write in the Amanda style. Another such organisation, the Amanda Ros Society, formed...

AMKR told Jack Loudan , her friend and biographer, that her full name was Amanda Malvina Fitzalan Anna Margaret McLelland McKittrick Ros, possibly in part after the heroine of one of the favourite books of...

She began to manage this concern for a friend of her husband's named Crawford, who was ill and who came to live with them during his convalescence. When he died, AMKR was the main inheritor...

AMKR 's husband, Andrew Ross , paid for the printing of her first novel, at Belfast, as a gift on their tenth wedding anniversary. As biographer Jack Loudan puts it, she persuaded him...

Biographer Jack Loudan considers this collection the least important of her works.

AMKR was vitriolic in her denunciations of critics—especially Barry Pain , who had criticized her first novel and whom, as a consequence, she despised for a lifetime. She described critics as, among many other things,...

AMKR 's third novel, Helen Huddleson, unpublished in her lifetime, appeared posthumously, edited and with a final chapter by Jack Loudan .

A Dublin man, John Coghlan (who had written to AMKR after the publication of the Nonesuch edition of Irene Iddesleigh) was reading the manuscript of what became this book by 1935. He made suggestions...