SUFFERINGS OF OUIDA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 166, 13 July 1907, Page 5

SUFFERINGS OF OUIDA.

p* NOVELIST IN WANT. V.' ' rOUB DAYS WITHOUT FOOD. fg ; [(Beceived 93 a-m.) r LONDON, July 12. .Eμ "'Daily "Mail" published this Homing, a- painful record of the poverty Into-which Ouida, otherwise MademoijeDe Louise de la Kamee, has sunk dur(Bg;f&ese latter days. Extravagance has been the bane of Bus \rilfttl, if popular, novelist, and itfingSrecently grew desperate with her when she 'was expelled from her beautiful |riU»,at Lucca, in Tuscany, owing to her failure, to meet her financial obligations. Ouida, who is no longer youthful, was Bow homeless, and had to pass a night under tie trees.. Fortunately, the mother oi an old servant discovered her sore jtiaiis, and sheltered her in her cottage. Ouida is now living in the particularly squalid house of an Italian, milkman at jjlar'Tosa. Chi one occasion recently she was enjfcirely without food for four days together. [Ouida kept up her flow of books at the rate: of one or two a year until 1901, .when, they came to an inexplicable ftrllftop; which seems not to have been inexplicable after all- It is unlikely, that the last few books—those since "The Massarenes" (159"7), or even since "Setta Barbara" (1891> — have been mif remunerathre, either to author or •-. but Ouida's better known novels are all. in copyright, escept posably, "Under Two Flags" (1867), and iliey still. hare a certain definite, although probably not a rapid, sale.]