of Mississippi) provide a comprehensive study of the work of
Ouida (pen name for Marie Louise Rame, 1839-1908), an exceedingly popular and prolific author of novels and essays in the 19th century, and almost unknown in literary studies today.
JAMAICA -- Anton Allison, Micheal Anderson, Rohan Anderson, Prince Benbow, Nadria Brown, Shirley Brown, Wayne Chambers, Keith Cohen, Kedon Davidson, Othnel Ferguson, Raymond Forrester, Glen Gassop, Christopher Gordon, Snowdem Grant, Dianne Green, Denzil Hammond, Newton Joseph, Gregg Major, Mandy McKenzie, Verman McKenzie, Clive Mohalland, Andel Moodie,
Ouida Pennant, Clement Reid, Winston Reid, Joycelyn Roach-Spencer, Hopeton Rodney, Wayne Searchwell, Selvin Shaw, Onley Spencer, Peter Stephen, Sherwin Stephens, Sherene Stobbs, Adylne Thomas, Haughton Thompson, Alfred Whitfield, Aeon Whyte, Alecia Whyte, Anthony Williams, Pauline Williams
Posterity, she claims, has not been kind to women like
Ouida, Lucas Malet, Alice Meynell and Rosamund Marriott Watson, all of whom were considered in their day to be the equal of the male writers now more commonly associated with aestheticism.
Elinor Glyn's Three Weeks (1907), following upon the scarlet-ish heels of her The Visits of Elizabeth, described by Gertrude Atherton as 'very naughty and very clever [ldots] and giving startling side-lights on country-house life in England', simply delighted the naive majority, the more sophisticated, however, dismissing it as mere
Ouida r[acute{e}]eachauf[acute{e}]e.