Ouida

For a number of years the novels of Ouida have been the delight of their readers and the scorn and laughing stock of reviewers.

Ouida had for a long time the same objection to her stories being published piecemeal in newspapers and periodicals.

This afternoon we went to have tea with "Ouida" at her villa outside Florence.

Ouida is, I am afraid, a little bit of a poseuse, but geniuses have privileges which cannot be endured in ordinary people.