Ouida, the pen name of Maria Louise Ramé, wrote Victorian novels about aristocracy, artists, soldiers, outsiders and animals. Under Two Flags follows an English guardsman who disappears into the French Foreign Legion after taking responsibility for another man's wrongdoing, mixing romance, military adventure and melodrama. A Dog of Flanders centres on an impoverished boy and his dog in Belgium, while Moths and Princess Napraxine turn a sharper eye on fashionable European society. Ouida's fiction can be extravagant, emotional and satirical, with luxury and social hypocrisy often appearing side by side. Her work fits Victorian fiction, historical romance, animal stories and nineteenth-century melodrama. Read more Less
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