Ouida

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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 Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Doreen Wallace
DW does not write as a promoter. To her the Fens as a whole—including the Norfolk marsh-land—are dismally uninspiring from a scenic point of view.
Wallace, Doreen. East Anglia. Batsford.
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She has no romantic illusions about pastoral life:...
Textual Features Mary Webb
Critics have called Dormer Old House itself the protagonist of this novel; its description fills the opening chapter. Like the country house in MW 's previous book, it takes a gothic colouring from the unhappiness...
Education Dorothy Whipple
As a small child DW loved the Bible. She had a child's bible with illustrations, and was fascinated by stories of Christ's miracles (though a blind man took it badly when she proposed spitting...
Education Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Perhaps most important for Ella, however, was her mother 's influence and guidance, and the reading of every magazine she could lay her hands on, together with works by Ouida , Mary J. Holmes ...
Textual Production Oscar Wilde
Wilde shifted the magazine's focus from fashion and transformed it into an organ for women's opinions and feelings on the subjects of modern life, art, and literature, as well as style. He was also dedicated...
Education John Strange Winter
After this she completed her education at home. Although even in this context she says, I was not well educated, for I never would learn,
Bainton, George, editor. The Art of Authorship. J. Clarke.
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she also described herself as having always been from...
Intertextuality and Influence John Strange Winter
While in reminiscence JSW was uncertain as to the title of this early composition, she acknowledged the influence on it of Ouida and Whyte Melville . She sent the story to the journal Wedding Bells...

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