奥维达

奥维达（Ouida ；），或译薇達，原名玛丽亚·路易丝·拉梅（Maria Louise Ramé，她本人倾向使用Marie Louise de la Ramée），是一名英国小说家，以笔名“奥维达”知名。她创作出像是《弗兰德斯的狗》等四十多部小说和大量的短片故事、散文。她的小说十分畅销，稿费颇丰，因此生活也十分奢靡，经常在伦敦的豪华酒店里举办沙龙，最终她的财富被她挥霍一空，去世后留下大笔的债务。

生平
奧維達出生于圣埃德蒙兹伯里"Maria Louise Rame" , birth record, Bury St. Edmunds, FreeBMD, accessed 14 September 2019. Note: Does not include any information about parents.，她的母亲苏珊·萨顿是一个葡萄酒商之女Schroeder, Natalie, and Shari Hodges Holt (2008). Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in her Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press. p. 14. .，而父亲是法国人The New York Times , 29 January 1908. Note: Ouida was identified as the sister of the US Civil War officer, Col. George Roy Gliddoth. She was said to have "left her home in America at a tender age under the care of a woman who adopted her as her daughter." Another article about her supposed Gliddoth family was reported in Publishers Weekly at the same time.。其笔名来自她的中间名“Louise”。

1863年，奧維達出版第一部小说《Held in Bondage》。她主要在伦敦进行创作，曾在朗豪酒店举办沙龙。1871年左右，奧維達移居意大利，1874年她和母亲在佛罗伦萨定居。1908年1月25日，奧維達因肺炎在维亚雷焦去世，安葬在巴尼-迪卢卡。

作品
年份名称注释1863Held in Bondage原名《Granville de Vigne》1865Strathmore1866Chandos 1867Cecil Castlemaine's Gage1867Idalia1867Under Two Flags后被多次改编为电影1868Randolph Gordon and Other Stories1868Beatrice Boville and Other Stories1869Tricotrin1870Puck1871Folle-Farine1872A Leaf in the Storm, and other stories包括：A Leaf in the Storm, A Provance Rose, A Dog of Flanders, and A branch of Lilac1872《弗兰德斯的狗》多次改编为电影1874Pascarel1874Two Little Wooden Shoes也曾以《Bébée》的名字出版1875Signa1876In a Winter City1877Ariadne1878Friendship1880Moths1880Pipistrello and Other Stories1881A Village Commune1882Bimbi: Stories for Children1882In Maremma1883Afternoon1883Frescoes: Dramatic Sketches1883Wanda1884Princess Napraxine1885A Rainy June1885Othmar1886Don Guesaldo1887A House Party1889Guilderoy1890Ruffino and Other Stories1890Syrlin1891Santa Barbara and Other Stories1892The Tower of Taddeo1893The New Priesthood: A Protest Against Vivisection1894The Silver Christ1894The Silver Christ and A Lemon Tree1894Two Offenders and Other Tales1895The Nürnberg Stove1895Toxin1895Views and Opinions1896Le Selve and Other Tales1897An Altruist1897Dogs1897Muriella; or, Le Selve1897The Massarenes1899La Strega and Other Stories1900Critical Studies1900The Waters of Edera1901Street Dust and Other Stories1908Helianthus 1910Moufflou and other stories

 参考文献

Ouida and Victorian Popular Culture  (1st Edition), Andrew King (Edited by Jane Jordan), pub. Routledge

 外部链接 




 Works by Ouida  at The Victorian Women Writers Project

 Book description of In Maremma (1882) at Valancourt Books
 Charles Warren Stoddard, "Ouida in Her Winter City", National Magazine, March 1905, p. 653, with photos, at OpenBooks
 Willis J. Abbot: Notable women in history : the lives of women who in all ages, all lands and in all womanly occupations have won fame and put their imprint on the world's history (1913), p. 407–410.
 Ouida Similes , Bartleby

Category:英格兰小说家
Category:圣埃德蒙兹伯里人
Category:罹患肺炎逝世者