Adelaide Ross
Adelaide Ross , actually Mary Adelaide Phillpotts (born April 23, 1896 in Ealing , London Borough of Ealing , † June 4, 1993 in Poughill (Bude) ) was an English writer.
Life
Ross was the daughter of the writer Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) and his wife Emily Topham († 1928).
She received her first lessons at home from governesses . She later went to Girton House boarding school and transferred from there to the Gressendale School . Through her father she made the acquaintance of Charles Kay Ogden , with whom she worked at The Cambridge Magazine in 1915/16 .
Phillpotts then studied at Bedford College ( University of London ). Because of her father, she had known many writers since her youth: u. a. Arnold Bennett , Agatha Christie , Thomas Hardy, and Jerome K. Jerome .
At the age of 55, Phillpotts married the American bookseller Nicholas Ross from Boston , Mass. On August 25, 1951, against her father's express wish . On their wedding day, Eden Phillpotts broke off all contact with his daughter and refused to take him up again for the rest of his life. By his own admission, Ross had a happy marriage until the death of her husband.
Ross spent the last years of her life in Kilkhampton ( Cornwall ). Sick and almost blind, she gave up her household and moved to the Trelana Nursing Home in Poughill. There she died on June 4, 1993 at the age of 97. She found her final resting place next to her husband in the cemetery at Morwenstow ( North Cornwall ).
reception
It was a long time before Ross could emerge literarily from her father's shadow. For years she was her father's most important colleague and, especially in his plays, her share is considered very large. But after the final break with her father, she was soon able to achieve her own success and was valued by the public as well as by literary critics.
Works (selection)
- Autobiography
- Reverie. An autobiography . Hale, London 1981, ISBN 0-7091-8822-6 .
- Letters
- Arthur Uphill (Ed.): Letters to Nicholas Ross . Rota Press, London 1971, ISBN 0-85400-007-0 .
- Poems
- A song of man. Poems (Poets of today). Linden Press, London 1959.
- Illyrion and other poems . Palmer & Hayward, London 1916.
- Novels
- A wild flower wreath . The author's Press, Bude 1975.
- Tomek, the sculptor . Little, Brown, Boston, Mass. 1927.
- The founder of Shandon . Ernest Benn Books, London 1932.
- The gallant heart . Rich & Cowan, London 1938.
- Lodgers in London . Books for Libraries Press 1971, ISBN 0-836-93824-0
- Plays
- Yellow Sands. A comedy in three acts . French, London 1930 (with her father); and Duckworth 1926
- Camillus and the schoolmaster. A play in one act . Gowans & Gray, London 1923.
- Achnation. A play . Thornton Butterworth, London 1926.
- Arachne. A play . Cecil Palmer Books, London 1920.
literature
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , Vol. 44 . OUP, London 2004, pp. 160-161, ISBN 0-19-861394-6 .
- James Y. Dayananda (Ed.): Eden Phillpotts selected letters . University Press of America, Lanham, Md. 1984, ISBN 0-8191-3827-4 .
Web links
- Adelaide Ross in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Oxford DNB. Retrieved April 19, 2013 .
- ↑ Approx. 10 km north of Bude (Cornwall)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ross, Adelaide |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Phillpotts, Mary Adelaide (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ealing , London Borough of Ealing |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th June 1993 |
| Place of death | Poughill (booth) |