Ouida published 44 volumes of fiction, primarily novels, but also novellas and short stories for both children and adults. Often publishing more than one book a year, she was also a prolific essayist who wrote on matters of politics and literature. Criticised for her style and vilified by a number of prominent critics in the 1860s and 1870s for the moral, even national, dissipation which her transgressive narratives were thought to cause, Ouida was later acclaimed by some (Marie Corelli, for example) as a genius. Critical attention to her work has been sparse since her death: a modest amount of comment has addressed her part in the sensation novel. Go to Orlando>