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Ouida
[ wee-duh ]
Ouida
/ ˈwiːdə /
noun
- Ouida18391908FBritishWRITING: novelist real name Marie Louise de la Ramée . 1839–1908, British popular novelist, best known for Under Two Flags (1867)
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Ouida was a more real, more charitable person than she was given credit for being.
Ouida had for a long time the same objection to her stories being published piecemeal in newspapers and periodicals.
But Ouida can relieve the strain she makes upon her readers' feelings only by a profuse display of worldly wisdom.
But even for the melodrama Ouida, clever as she is, lacks one important element—namely, a sense of humor.
In a Winter City, again, reeks with fashionable follies and is written in Ouida's most approved worst style.
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