EM_ark13960t3225r219_001
Author: Ouida, 1839-1908
Title: Pascarèl: Only a Story
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1910
URL: archive.org/details/22592681.1952.emory.edu
Description and Synopsis:
This novel is set in Italy. Its cover depicts a young woman walking down some stairs. Behind her is a bust of the Madonna and child. The back cover of the book includes an advertisement for "Pears' Soap."
Further Notes:
Ouida was the pseudonym of English writer Mary (Marie) Louise de la Ramée. Although she is now best known as the author of Under Two Flags (1867), she was a very popular late-nineteenth-century writer and wrote over 40 novels. Ouida’s career as a writer began through her introduction to William Harrison Ainsworth, who encouraged her to write for Bentley’s Miscellany. Her first story appeared in 1859 and she wrote prolifically thereafter. Her first novel, Held in Bondage, appeared in 1863. She is known for the glamorous settings of her novels about high society, which carry on the earlier nineteenth-century tradition of the ‘silver fork’ novel (“Ouida”). Ouida was critical of the feminist movement of her time and instead focused her efforts on advocating for animal welfare—she was especially fond of dogs (“Ouida”). While her novels are not currently widely read, Ouida’s work plays an important part in accounts of the role of women novelists during the nineteenth century and her writing was well-loved by her contemporaries (Stokes). There has been some revived critical interest in Ouida has a female aesthete (“Ouida”).
Works Cited:
“Ouida, 1839–1908.” Literature Online Biography. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 2005. Web. 27 Jan. 2015. gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:...
Stokes, Roy B. “Ouida.” Victorian Novelists After 1885. Ed. Ira Bruce Nadel and William E. Fredeman. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 18. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1200003422&v=2.1&...
EM_ark13960t3225r219_001
Author: Ouida, 1839-1908
Title: Pascarèl: Only a Story
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Publication Date: 1910
URL: archive.org/details/22592681.1952.emory.edu
Description and Synopsis:
This novel is set in Italy. Its cover depicts a young woman walking down some stairs. Behind her is a bust of the Madonna and child. The back cover of the book includes an advertisement for "Pears' Soap."
Further Notes:
Ouida was the pseudonym of English writer Mary (Marie) Louise de la Ramée. Although she is now best known as the author of Under Two Flags (1867), she was a very popular late-nineteenth-century writer and wrote over 40 novels. Ouida’s career as a writer began through her introduction to William Harrison Ainsworth, who encouraged her to write for Bentley’s Miscellany. Her first story appeared in 1859 and she wrote prolifically thereafter. Her first novel, Held in Bondage, appeared in 1863. She is known for the glamorous settings of her novels about high society, which carry on the earlier nineteenth-century tradition of the ‘silver fork’ novel (“Ouida”). Ouida was critical of the feminist movement of her time and instead focused her efforts on advocating for animal welfare—she was especially fond of dogs (“Ouida”). While her novels are not currently widely read, Ouida’s work plays an important part in accounts of the role of women novelists during the nineteenth century and her writing was well-loved by her contemporaries (Stokes). There has been some revived critical interest in Ouida has a female aesthete (“Ouida”).
Works Cited:
“Ouida, 1839–1908.” Literature Online Biography. Cambridge: Chadwyck-Healey, 2005. Web. 27 Jan. 2015. gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:...
Stokes, Roy B. “Ouida.” Victorian Novelists After 1885. Ed. Ira Bruce Nadel and William E. Fredeman. Detroit: Gale Research, 1983. Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 18. Literature Resource Center. Web. 20 Jan. 2015. go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CH1200003422&v=2.1&...