Ouida
pseudonym of the novelist LOUISE DE LA RAMEE, born about 1840; spent part of her girlhood with her mother at Bury St. Edmunds and afterwards lived in London where she wrote for the leading magazines. After 1875 or 1876 she lived on the continent, principally at Florence, Italy. She was the author of a number of novels, volumes of short stories and essays, among the most noted are: "Strathmore" (1865), "Ida-