Amanda McKittrick Ros

"Readers, did you ever hear/ Of Mickey Monkeyface McBlear?/ His snout is long with a flattish top/ Lined inside with a slimy crop:/ His mouth like a slit in a money box/ Portrays his kindred to a fox."

-Amanda McKittrick Ros, from "Poems of Puncture"

Amanda McKittrick Ros was a turn of the (19th to 20th) century author, notorious for her urple prose that was all but incomprehensible.

The Inklings had a game where they would read from her works aloud, and whoever kept a straight face the longest while reading won.

Novels

 * Irene Iddesleigh
 * Delia Derbyshire
 * Helen Huddleston (posthumous)

Poetry anthologies

 * Poems of Puncture
 * Fumes of Formation