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Ouida (8) (Key Popular Women Writers)

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This new study of Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908), who wrote under the pseudonym Ouida, considers the best-selling Victorian author's vivid, evocative work and especially the complex, even complicated ways in which she envisions and portrays gender. Ouida's oeuvre, which includes non-fiction, short stories, and around forty novels over a forty-year writing period, and which was translated into more than ten foreign languages, is as diverse and unpredictable as the writer herself. She considered herself a francophile and cosmopolitan, moved from a London salon to a Florentine villa, and remained unmarried and self-supporting. Her work, which was admired by such contemporaries as John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde, and Marie Corelli, and which earned her a reputation as 'the English Zola', was noted for its vivid prose, high drama, and causal disregard for established moral conventions, particularly regarding gender. In turns associated with sensation fiction, social critique, and aestheticism, her novels' unifying trait is that they defied, and continue to defy, expectations. Ouida wrote a critical desert adventure decades before the generations of Rider Haggard, General Gordon, or T.E. Lawrence. She satirised the marriage market and its social conventions, in turns bitterly and brilliantly funny, in her 1880 novel 'Moths', before the advent of New Woman fiction, a term she helped coin even as she remained critical of the figure. She had high moral standards for her characters, yet sent female spies and soldiers, and a multitude of happy adulteresses adventuring across European high society, without subjecting them to Victorian narrative justice that haunts the Fallen Woman. She willingly portrayed social taboos such as extramarital affairs, blackmail, or marital abuse, in her highly stylised and entertaining novels. This study discusses Ouida's life and reception as a popular female author, skilful narrator, and fierce libertarian.

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Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1915115140
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Women
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 30 September 2024
Listed Since: 16 July 2024

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