person
Maria Louise Ramé
Ouida
also: Uyda, Уйда, Marie Louise de la Ramée
English novelist (1839-1908) who wrote under the pen name "Ouida"; a story of hers appeared in Russian translation, done by Chekhov's acquaintance the tax inspector Mikhail Chekhov, in the latest issue of the "Herald of Foreign Literature" as Chekhov mentions in.
Reading notes
- To A. S. Suvorin, 10 May 1891. Aleksin. §5 a story of Ouida's
"Ouida" was the pen name of the English novelist Maria Louise Ramé (1839-1908), prolific and popular in period translation; Chekhov gives only the pseudonym, as was standard in the Russian press of the time.