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OUIDA
(Louise de la Ramee, 1839-1908, Author)
Autograph Letter Signed Ouida, to Madame,
saying she believes that Black Beauty has been long ago translated but that kind of thing is no use in Italy. People do not read. I am perplexed why you trouble yourself about us when... Cruelty goes on in your own Country to Dogs & all over England..., with a postscript over part of the first page saying she can send a subscription to the Princess Mele Bourese [?], Castellamare, Naples, 4 sides 8vo., no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1875
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Background
'Ouida' was born at Bury St. Edmunds of an English mother and French father, who encouraged her in reading history, liberal politics, Balzac and Stendhal. She wrote 'Held in Bondage', 1863, 'Under Two Flags', 1867, melodramatic tales of love and intrigue, and novels such as 'Moths', 1880, and 'A Village Commune', 1881, on social questions. From 1871 she lived in her beloved Florence. The British and American colony there was satirised in her novel, Friendship, written in 1878.
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