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This membership register contains Ouida’s signature. Maria Louise de La Ramée, known as Ouida, was born in Bury St Edmunds (Suffolk) on 1 January 1839 and died in Viareggio (Lucca) on 25 January 1908. She was a British novelist and campaigner for animal rights: she took in many animals and owned up to thirty dogs. She lived in London for a long time from 1857, then spent several periods in France, where she had ancestors, before settling in Italy around 1874.