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OUIDA , the See also:pen name—derived from a childish See also:attempt to pronounce " Louisa "—of Maria See also:Louise [de la] Ramee (1839-1908), See also:English novelist, See also:born at See also:Bury St See also:Edmunds, where her See also:birth was registered on the 7th of See also:January 1839. Her See also:father, See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Ramee, was See also:French, and her See also:mother, Susan See also:Sutton, English. At an See also:early See also:age she went to live in See also:London, and there began to contribute to the New Monthly and See also:Bentley's See also:Magazine. In 186o her first See also:story, afterwards republished as Held in Bondage (1863), appeared in the New Monthly under the See also:title of See also:Granville de See also:Vigne, and this was followed in See also:quick See also:succession by Strathmore
(1865), See also:Chandos (1866) and Under Two Flags (1867). The See also:list of Ouida's subsequent See also:works is a very See also:long one; but it is sufficient to say that, together with Moths (188o), those already named are not only the most characteristic, but also the best. In a less dramatic genre, her Bimbi: Stories for See also:Children (1882) may also be mentioned; but it was by her more flamboyant stories, such as Under Two Flags and Moths, that her popular success was achieved. By purely See also:literary critics and on grounds of morality or See also:taste Ouida's novels may be condemned. They are generally flashy, and frequently unwholesome. It is impossible, however, to dismiss books like Chandos and Under Two Flags merely on such grounds. The emphasis given by Ouida to motives of sensual See also:passion was combined in her with an See also:original See also:gift for situation and See also:plot, and also with genuine descriptive See also:powers which, though disfigured by inaccurate observation, literary solecisms and See also:tawdry extravagance, enabled her at her best to construct a picturesque and powerful story. The See also:character of " Cigarette " in Under Two Flags is full of See also:fine touches, and this is not an isolated instance. In 1874 Ouida made her See also:home in See also:Florence, and many of her later novels have an See also:Italian setting. She contributed from See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to time to the magazines, and wrote vigorously on behalf of See also:anti-See also:vivisection and on Italian politics; but her views on these subjects were marked by characteristic violence and lack of See also:judgment. She had made a See also:great See also:deal of See also:money by her earlier books, but had spent it without thought for the morrow; and though in 1907 she was awarded a See also:Civil List See also:pension, she died at See also:Viareggio in poverty on the 25th of January 1908.
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