Ouida

01 January 1839 - 25 January 1908

Standard Name: Ouida

Birth Name: Marie Louise Ramé

Self-constructed Name: Louise de la Ramée

Pseudonym: Ouida

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ouida published 44 volumes of fiction, primarily novels, but also novellas and short stories for both children and adults. Often publishing more than one book a year, she was also a prolific essayist who wrote on matters of politics and literature. Her first, three-decker novels, from the 1860s, often centred on the adventures of military men and were characterized as sensation novels. After she moved to Italy in the early 1870s, she wrote a number of novels concerned with the conditions of the government and population (especially the poor) of that country.

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Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Literary responses	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	In 1951 Canadian novelist Robertson Davies made this book the centre of a fictional anecdote: a distinguished professor bequeaths to his grand-daughter a box of battered old books (Lady Audley's Secret, Mrs Henry Wood
Literary responses	Florence Dixie	FD received many letters of appreciation from individual readers: from a sailor on a British warship and a soldier with the army in South Africa, as well as from Ouida and Marie Corelli , to...
Family and Intimate relationships	Ella Hepworth Dixon	EHD 's father, a Yorkshireman named William Hepworth Dixon , was the editor of the Athenæum from 1853 to 1869 and wrote several novels. He was lionized by London society after the publication of...
Education	Elaine Feinstein	Her MA followed automatically three years after her Cambridge BA. She achieved her Part I bar finals in London, but dropped the idea of practising law when she understood how much money she would...
Textual Production	Elaine Feinstein	EF has carried out a great deal of scholarly commentary of a kind best calculated to be useful to readers (though she did not finish her MA thesis on nineteenth-century sexual fantasists like Ouida and...
Textual Production	Stella Gibbons	The novel concerns a foundling raised by a widow and a spinster who run a grocery shop in Bruges. It was probably influenced by Ouida 's Two Little Wooden Shoes. Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 219
Intertextuality and Influence	Stella Gibbons	SG published Ticky, a fantasy novel inspired by Ouida . Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 20-1 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Author summary	Stella Gibbons	SG was a gifted comic writer whose lively, parodic first novel, Cold Comfort Farm, was such a success that it has tended to eclipse her later achievements. Much of her writing was inspired by...
Education	Stella Gibbons	SG learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury. 20 of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...
Publishing	Sarah Grand	SG 's use of the phrase New Woman in The New Aspect of the Woman Question (an essay in the North American Review, part of an exchange with Ouida ) has been claimed by...
Intertextuality and Influence	John Oliver Hobbes	Pearl Richards (later JOH ) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...
Literary responses	John Oliver Hobbes	More recently, Margaret Maison characterised The School For Saints as a strange mixture of Disraeli , Hardy , Ouida , and Meredith . . . and there are even echoes of the old bigamy novels...
Literary responses	Jean Ingelow	The Athenæum remarked that in spite of many faults in construction, we had seldom read a more charming novel of the domestic kind. Athenæum. J. Lection. 2355 (1872): 765 The review mentioned that JI seemed to live in...
Textual Production	Henry James	Although HJ is best remembered as a novelist, he was also a prolific and insightful critic of literature and the arts. Over the course of his career he reviewed many novels by British women writers...
Friends, Associates	Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde	In London JFLW associated with writers such as Marie Corelli , Ouida , and Violet Hunt . Oscar , an emerging celebrity, introduced his mother to the city's artistic circle.

Timeline

4 November 1836

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.

December 1868

With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley , ended its publication.

17 November 1958

The sale began at Sotheby's of the collection of first editions built up by the bibliographer Michael Sadleir , who had recently died.

Texts

Ouida, and Enrico Mazzanti. A Dog of Flanders. Chapman and Hall, 1872.

Ouida,. A Dog of Flanders. L. C. Page.

Ouida,. A Village Commune. Chatto and Windus, 1881.

Ouida,. A Village Commune. Chatto and Windus, 1882.

Ouida,. Bimbi. Chatto and Windus, 1882.

Ouida,. Bimbi. J. B. Lippincott, 1907.

Ouida,. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage. Chapman and Hall, 1867.

Ouida,. Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage. Books for Libraries Press, 1970.

Ouida,. Chandos. Chapman and Hall, 1866.

Ouida,. Critical Studies. T. Fisher Unwin, 1900.

Ouida,. Folle-Farine. Chapman and Hall, 1871.

Ouida,. Held in Bondage. Tinsley, 1863.

Ouida,. Helianthus. Macmillan, 1908.

Ouida,. Idalia. Chapman and Hall, 1867.

Ouida,. Moths. Chatto and Windus, 1880.

Ouida,. Moths. Chatto and Windus, 1895.

Ouida,. Pascarèl. Chapman and Hall, 1873.

Ouida,. Strathmore. Chapman and Hall, 1865.

Ouida,. The Massarenes. Sampson Low, 1897.

Ouida,. The New Priesthood. E. W. Allen, 1893.

Ouida,. Two Little Wooden Shoes. Chapman and Hall, 1874.

Ouida,. Under Two Flags. Chapman and Hall, 1867.

Ouida, and Olivia Manning. Under Two Flags. Anthony Blond, 1967.

Ouida,. Views and Opinions. Methuen, 1895.