1 is highly appropriate that Holly wood should do honour to the author of "Under 'Two Flags" for that. Fespressibly extravagant lady' of the Victorian age, Mile Marie Louise do la Ramde—daughter of French father and. English mother—would have found tome. of the amenities of Hollywood deliciously attractive to het." She. might still have had to depend on' the bounty of the Civil she ad lived in these days lead of dying toward (he end of the Edwardian reign. Curiously enough she was born in that truly English town, Bury St. Edmunds, the defeated but' unbowed rival of com Imerelally-minded Ipswich for the Teadership of Suffolk, The pen-name which she took' was merely' the niut= serv corruption of her own Cheistion name but to appreciate its full gla~ our it ig necessary to have heard [sed in terms of horror and reproation by the shocked adults who forbade youthful access to certain of her pages. Even that often brosd: mind= {ed work the Encyclopaedia Britannica has left on record it view that.,"on rounds of morality oF taste Ouida's hhovels may be condemned. generally flashy frequently Uunwholesome."" Still the admission that the character. of, "Cigarette" "full of fine touches makes amends. Suffolk cannot complain that Oulda inflicted herself on the county of hor birth. She migrated to: Lone don at an carly age and. in 1674, fourteen years atter her Mrst story "Held. in Bondage"—vas published she moved to Italy where she lived {iil death im 1008. "Phat"civit List Dension was belated for it was not awarded unit 1007, 901 a ife In'whieh abe died. ren opportunity of mitigating the poverty
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