Ouida’s A Dog of Flanders, and other stories is object #28 of our 100 Centennial Collection Highlights. Ouida, born Maria Louis Ramé in Suffolk (1839–1908), Bury St. Edmunds, adopted her pseudonym from her childhood mispronunciation of her birth name. She enjoyed a successful career as a prolific writer, penning over forty books, but she died in Lucca, Italy without money or wealth. With the exception of her most popular book, A Dog of Flanders (1872), her legacy as an author has since fallen in