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Ouida


Born
in Bury St. Edmunds, England, The United Kingdom
January 01, 1839

Died
January 25, 1908

Genre

Influences
Lord Byron


Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (although she preferred to be known as Marie Louise de la Ramée).

During her career, she wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs. For many years she lived in London, but about 1874 she went to Italy, where she died.

Ouida's work went through several phases during her career. In her early period, her novels were a hybrid of the sensationalism of the 1860s and the proto-adventure novels dubbed "muscular fiction" that were emerging in part as a romanticization of imperial expansion. Later her work was more along the lines of historical rom
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“Intensely selfish people are always very decided as to what they wish. They do not waste their energies in considering the good of others.”
Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.

“I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.”
Ouida, Wanda, Countess von Szalras.

“Woman's fatal weakness is to desire sympathy and comprehension.
--"Wanda”
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