Ouida

Whether this derivative intellectualist spiderishly spinning his own plots and phrases and calling Ouida a "grotesque" -- whether this echo ever tried to grasp the bearing of her essays on Shelley or Blind Guides or Alma

Alone

'Ouida's' are my delight, only they are so long, I get worn out before I 'm through.

An Old-Fashioned Girl

& Co. The genius of "Ouida" is _sui generis_, and must in part create the standards by which it is to be judged.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873

If Rhoda Broughton or "Ouida" were to cease being vulgar in print, they would be obliged to stop writing altogether, a public benefit which we can hardly expect them to confer.

A History of English Prose Fiction

To such writers as George A. Lawrence and "Ouida" the world is indebted for the "Muscular Novel," which combines all the worst elements of both fashionable and criminal narrative.

A History of English Prose Fiction

Lawrence and "Ouida" have brought to their work a literary power which has given them considerable notoriety; and has placed them at the head of their particular school; but it is a school whose distinctive characteristics consist in extravagance, unhealthiness of tone, and falseness to nature.

A History of English Prose Fiction

Some will eagerly devour every novel of Miss Braddon's, or "The Duchess," or the woman calling herself "Ouida," but they cannot appreciate the masterly fictions of

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And certainly it can not apply to those women any more than to those men whose highest and final estate never is merged in the family relation at all, and even "Ouida" concedes "that the project ... to give votes only to unmarried women may be dismissed without discussion, as it would be found to be wholly untenable."

Debate on Woman Suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d Session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887

But then, I'm nothing to write home about, whereas the smallest gleam of intelligence should have told Wilton that he was a kind of Ouida guardsman.

The Man with Two Left Feet And Other Stories

"Ouida," which was the result of a child's attempt to pronounce her first name.

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