Editing Ouida (section)

==Legacy and honours==
Soon after her death, her friends organized a public subscription in Bury St Edmunds, where they had a fountain for horses and dogs installed in her name.<ref name="Memorial">{{cite web
  | last =  St Edmundsbury 
  | first = Borough Council
  | title = Ouida Memorial, Bury St Edmunds.
  | url = http://www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/sebc/visit/Ouida-Memorial.cfm
  | access-date =15 January 2008 }}</ref> Its inscription was composed by [[Lord Curzon]]:

{{Blockquote|Her friends have erected this fountain in the place of her birth. Here may God's creatures whom she loved assuage her tender soul as they drink.}}

Fellow author "Rita" Humphreys ([[Eliza Humphreys|Eliza Margaret Jane Humphreys]], 1850–1938) wrote a eulogy to Ouida and sent it to the press soon after her death. It was read at the unveiling of Ouida's memorial. During Rita's youth, Ouida had been popular but the girl was forbidden to read her. She made up for it later by purchasing every book written by Ouida and keeping them in her library for the rest of her life.<ref>'' "Rita" The Forgotten Author'', by Paul Jones L.R.P.S.</ref>