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Louise R. Allen
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Othmar, by Ouida
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Allen Genealogy
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The Village Commune
This novel, The Village Commune, is more adult than childish, but it's an odd thing when you consider it as a novel. In some ways, it's a political argument, couched as a novel -- interesting stuff, especially for those who want to examine the sorts of thought that gave rise to twentieth-century political experiments.
English Literature
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The Waters of Edera
Ouida was the pen name of the English novelist Marie Louise de la Rame. Rame, who lived from 1839 until 1908, took her pen name from her own baby-talk nickname for "Louise." She wrote more than 40 novels, children's books, and collections of short stories and essays -- books that had "flash," but frequently, well, "weren't wholesome." She wrote about folks full of lust acting out the things inside their hearts . . . she was a woman, in short, ahead of her time. But her best work -- novels like "Under Two Flags" and "Moths" -- was so gripping that even the Victorian social critics had to own that she was a talent. In 1874 she moved from London to Italy, and spent the remainder of her life in that country. She died there (alas, like many memorable writers) in poverty.
A Dog of Flanders, and Other Stories
The orphan boy Nello, who lives with his grandfather, finds a dog who has been badly beaten and nurses it back to health. He calls the dog Patrasche and together they deliver milk, with Patrasche pulling the cart. They are never separated again, no matter how difficult their lives become.
Edging Women Out
Before about 1840, there was little prestige attached to the writing of novels, and most English novelists were women. By the turn of the twentieth century, "men of letters" acclaimed novels as a form of great literature, and most critically successful novelists were men. In the book, sociologist Gaye Tuchman examines how men succeeded in redefining a form of culture and in invading a white-collar occupation previously practiced mostly by women. Tuchman documents how men gradually supplanted women as novelists once novel-writing was perceived as potentially profitable, in part because of changes in the system of publishing and rewarding authors. Drawing on unusual data ranging from the archi...
