Editing Ouida (section)

==Early years==
Maria Louise Ramé was born at [[Bury St Edmunds]], [[Suffolk]], England.<ref name="Maria Louise Ramé">[https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/information.pl?scan=1&r=1679879:2344&d=bmd_1566861514 "Maria Louise Rame"], birth record, Bury St. Edmunds, FreeBMD, accessed 14 September 2019. Note: Does not include any information about parents.</ref> Her mother, Susan Sutton, was a wine merchant's daughter;<ref>Schroeder, Natalie, and Shari Hodges Holt (2008). ''Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in her Fiction''. Newark: University of Delaware Press, p. 14. {{ISBN|9780874130331}}.</ref> her father was from France.<ref name="Maria Louise Ramé"/><ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1908/01/29/104716286.pdf ''The New York Times''], 29 January 1908. Note: Ouida was identified as the sister of the US Civil War officer, Col. George Roy Gliddoth. She was said to have "left her home in America at a tender age under the care of a woman who adopted her as her daughter." Another article about her supposed Gliddoth family was reported in ''[[Publishers Weekly]]'' at the same time.</ref> She derived her pen name from her own childish pronunciation of her given name "Louise".<ref name=Cosmo /> Her opinion of her birthplace fluctuated; she wrote:— "That clean, quiet antiquated town, that always puts me in the mind of an old maid dressed for a party; that lowest and dreariest of Boroughs, where the streets are as full of grass as an acre of pasture land. Why, the inhabitants are driven to ringing their own doorbells lest they rust from lack of use."<ref>{{cite book|title=Cecil Castlemaine's Gage: And Other Novelettes|year=1899|publisher=Chatto & Windus|pages=351|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YLQsAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351}}</ref>