Ouida
Americannoun
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Among them was Ouida Garrett, 87, married 64 years to Leonard, 90, a retired Boeing computer programmer.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2018
The trouble for any reader who tackles her today is that Ouida usually wrote with a perfume atomizer about aristocratic characters now very nearly extinct.
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Yet Ouida, "almost the last of lady authors," is not just a Victorian-Edwardian period piece.
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This memoir begins in the breathless manner of a modern Ouida.
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Syrlin—By Ouida The announcement of a new novel by Ouida, sends a thrill of delight through the countless host of faithful admirers of that petulant priestess of mild improprieties.
From There is no Death by Marryatt, Florence
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