A Victorian Best‐Seller

Abstract

WHEN LOUISE DE LA RAMEÉ was a young girl, a child she knew could not pronounce Louise so called her ‘Ouida’; so that the prolific Victorian novelist whose books became a craze at the circulating libraries of the time obtained her pen name through a child's mistake. In 1967 it will be a hundred years since what was perhaps her most famous novel, Under Two Flags, was first published.

Citation

Bowhay, D. (1967), "A Victorian Best‐Seller", Library Review, Vol. 21 No. 1, pp. 21-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012466