by Louise De La Ramee

Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Marie Louise de la Rame. Rame, who lived from 1839 until 1908, took her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname for 'Louise.' She wrote more than 40 novels, children's books, and collections of short stories and essays -- books that had 'flash,' but frequently, well, 'weren't wholesome.' She wrote about folks full of lust acting out the things inside their hearts . . . she was a woman, in short, ahead of her time. But her best work -- novels like 'Under Two Fl