Ouida
OUIDA was born Marie Louise de la Ramée in Bury St Edmunds in 1839, to an English mother and a French father. Her first novel, Held in Bondage, was published in 1863. Thereafter she published over 40 novels of a remarkable variety, stories, essays and children’s books. Her most famous novel Under Two Flags was published in 1867. She moved to Italy in 1871 and settled in Florence from 1874. She died of pneumonia at Viareggio in 1908 at the age of 69.
