Amanda McKittrick Ros

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