Ouida
Ouida (1839-1908) was the pseudonym for the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé, known for writing novels that romanticized a fashionable lifestyle. She got this name from the pronunciation of her childhood nickname “Louisa.” In her early twenties she moved to London and began voraciously writing, publishing numerous novels, which gained her wealth and fame. She threw elaborate parties at the Langham Hotel, inviting literary figures that inspired the characters in her books. At the height of...
Stories by English Authors: Germany (Selected by Scribners)
Robert Louis Stevenson, Ouida, John Strange Winter, Beatrice Harraden, William Black
Stories of Childhood
Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Rebecca Harding Davis, John Brown, John Ruskin, Ouida, Henry Kingsley, John Neal, S. H. DeKroyft
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