"Ouida: The Passionate Victorian" 1950 BIGLAND, Eileen P.G. Wodehouse

"Ouida: The Passionate Victorian" 1950 BIGLAND, Eileen P.G. WodehouseBIGLAND, Eileen [272] pp. Jarrolds Publishers Ltd 1950 8 5 8" x 5 7 8" Jacket design by Philip Gough Biography of the creator of romances that titillated and scandalized the Victorian world. Ouida (real name Maria Louise Rame) was more fascinating than her characters. She lived from 1839 to 1908 and had friends like Wilkie Collins, Oscar Wilde, and Robert Browning. She wrote more than 40 novels, plus children's books, short stories, and essays.

15 1/4" x 10 3/8"

slapstick comedy” (The New York Times)

Scotland Yard

who lives in the countryside and is passionate about hunting and shooting

he is sent to Jamaica to eliminate Scaramanga

” the latter of which he coined in 1970

along with photographs from her archive including a photo with Jean Cocteau

Lovely original gouache by Philip Gough (1909-1986) for the UK 'Heinemann' first edition published 1946 of 'Georgette Heyer's 'The Reluctant Widow'

" and through the cast-iron structures of SoHo--the "crusty old great-grandfathers" of New York's skyscrapers

but bear in mind that we are still writing the future chapters of a story which combines all the elements of drama and glamour

Ex- Watch Hill

Twenty-fifth Printing