Adelaide Ross

Mary Adelaide Eden Ross (née Phillpotts; 23 April 1896 – 4 June 1993) was an English novelist, poet and playwright. Amongst other literary celebrities who visited the Phillpotts family were Thomas Hardy and Arnold Bennett.

Phillpotts was treated cruelly by her father, but he would also write her sonnets. James Y. Dayananda notes that she published seven similar books where the lead character is not an ambitious feminist but is instead a woman based in the home. Despite being a sensitive woman, her heroine is beginning to realise that her gender's role may not always be submissive. The books, A Marriage, The Gallant Heart, The Round of Life, Our Little Town, From Jane to John, The Fosterling, Stubborn Earth were published between 1928 and 1951.

In 1951, at the age of 55, and strongly against her father's wishes, she married American bookseller Nicholas Ross (died 1967). From that time on, she published under the name Adelaide Ross,

Selected works Illyrion and other poems, 1916 Man, A Fable, 1922, Constable London Yellow Sands; a comedy in three acts by her and Eden Phillpotts, 1926 later a book and a film in 1938 A Marriage, 1928 Tomek, the sculptor, 1927 Buy a broom : comedy in three acts, 1929 The Good Old Days, 1932, a play co-written with her father West country plays: Buy a broom and A cup of happiness by her and Eden Phillpotts, 1933 My Lady's Mill, 1935, a play co-written with her father Akhnaton : a play The Gallant Heart, 1939 The Round of Life, 1939 Our Little Town, 1942 From Jane to John, 1943 The Fosterling, 1949 Stubborn Earth, 1951 Panorama of the world by Adelaide Ross, 1969 (travel – Hale, ) Letters to Nicholas Ross by John Cowper Powys, selected by Nicholas Ross (bookseller) and Adelaide Ross, edited by Arthur Uphill, 1971 (Bertram Rota, ) Reverie: an autobiography, 1981 (Hale, ) Village love : a country romance by Adelaide Phillpotts Ross (1988 reprint, Rigby & Lewis, )