Physical description

Hard cover book. Santa Barbara
Author: Ouida/Marie Louise de la Ramée
Publisher:Chatto and Windus
Date: 1891
Further Information: Red Cloth hardcover with lettering and patterning to spine in black. The spine has a Library label with an inscription.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT 823 OUI
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
The Flyleaf has the name "Louise Ranie" written in blue ink.

Summary

Santa Barbara, published in full as Santa Barbara, etc., is an 1891 collection of six short stories by the English Victorian author Ouida (the pen name of Maria Louise Ramé). It contains "Santa Barbara", "Poussette", "Rinaldo", "The Halt", "The Stable Boy" and "La Rossiccia". Set against Italian backdrops, the title story follows a tragedy involving social injustice, passion, animal welfare and human suffering in rural Italy. The broader collection examines typical late-Victorian issues such as class divides, emotional betrayal, the clash between traditional Italian peasant life and industrial modernisation, and cruelty toward animals.