Ouida

Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé, who was born in Bury St Edmunds in 1839 and died in Italy in 1908. She wrote more than forty novels, along with short stories, children's books and essays. She is best known for Under Two Flags, which follows the British in Algeria and expresses sympathy for the French colonists, and for A Dog of Flanders, a tale of a boy and his dog in Antwerp. Her other novels include Signa, Moths and Puck.