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Maria Louise Ram? (1839-1908) was an English author. She wrote under the pen name Ouida. She wrote more than 40 novels, children's books and collections of short stories and essays. She was an animal rights activist and animal rescuer, and at times owned as many as thirty dogs... Read Full Overview

A House Party, Don Gesualdo, And A Rainy June is a novel written by Ouida and first published in 1887. The book is divided into three parts, each with its own separate story. In the first part, A House Party, the reader is introduced to a group of wealthy and fashionable people... Read Full Overview

A House Party, Don Gesualdo, And A Rainy June is a novel written by Ouida, first published in 1887. The book is a collection of three short stories that are linked by their themes of love, betrayal, and social class. The first story, A House Party, is set in England and follows... Read Full Overview

It is an August morning. It is an old English manor-house. There is a breakfast-room hung with old gilded leather of the times of the Stuarts; it has oak furniture of the same period; it has leaded lattices with stained glass in some of their frames, and the motto of the house... Read Full Overview