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Marie Louise de la Ramée (1839-1908) wrote many popular novels of adventure and romance in the 1870s and 80s under the pen name of Ouida. She also produced a number of captivating stories for youngsters. One of the best, A Dog of Flanders,. First published in 1872, A Dog of Flanders tells the moving story of Nello, a gentle boy with ...
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- Who Are Nello and Patrasche?
- ‘A Dog of Flanders’: The Story of Nello and Patrasche
- Who Was The Author Marie-Louise de La Ramée (Ouida)?
- Nello and Patrasche in Japan and The United States of America: Big Business
- The Statue of Nello and Patrasche at The Cathedral of Antwerp
- Nello and Patrasche: A Comic Book, Movie, Book, Walk …
As mentioned, Nello and Patrasche are the main characters in the fictitious story ‘A Dog of Flanders’. So it is wrong to think that these two names represent people. But who is who then? There is some info on Wikipedia, but let me tell you everything I know, begin a Belgian living in Flanders myself. Nello is the name of a boy who grew up during th...
The story ‘A dog of Flanders’, translated in Dutch as ‘Een hond van Vlaanderen’, was written by Marie-Louise de la Ramée, who was also known under her pen name Ouida. Marie-Louise de la Ramée wrote this gripping story about the paupers and the rural life in Flanders during the 19th century. The poor leading characters being grandfather Johan, Nello...
The fact that de book had such a sad ending was a deliberate choice by auhor Marie-Louise de la Ramée (often known under her pseudonym Ouida). She was, after all, a known animal rights activist. It is not surprising that whith her book ‘A Dog of Flanders’ and the story of Nello and Patrasche, Marie-Louise de la Ramée wanted to denounce animal abuse...
You would not think it, but Nello and Patrasche are big celebrities in Japan. In Flanders and Belgium, the story is known to a minority of the population. In Japan, just about everyone seems to know the two. Especially thanks to an animated series that many Japanese children grew up with, the story of Nello and Patrasche is so well-known. The self-...
Because ‘A dog of Flanders’ is so popular in Japan, many Japanese tourists also come to Antwerp. Especially the cathedral in Antwerp is on their itinerary, because of the story where the sad ending of the book takes place in this church. A statue has already been erected in Hoboken, but the more recent statue of Nello and Patrasche in front of the ...
There has already been a lot of commercialization around the story of Nello and Patrasche. Think, for example, of movies, documentaries, a beer (of course, it’s Belgium!), tour walks, the book itself …These mainly attract foreign tourist though. In Belgium, and especially in Flanders, young people know Nello and his dog Patrasche mostly from the co...
Author: Louise de la Ramé (Ouida) Illustrator: Mary L. Kirk. Release Date: September 22, 2015 [EBook #50032] Language: English. Character set encoding: UTF-8. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DOG OF FLANDERS, NURNBERG STOVE *** Produced by Emmy, MWS and the Online Distributed. Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was.
Mar 1, 2005 · A Dog of Flanders Credits: Text file produced by Juliet Sutherland, S. R. Ellison, Ted Garvin, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team HTML file produced by David Widger Language: English: LoC Class: PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres: Subject: Dogs -- Juvenile fiction Subject: Flanders (Belgium) -- Juvenile fiction ...
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Jesse R. Erickson, our Astor Curator and Department Head of Printed Books & Bindings, tells us about a popular Victorian novelist, Maria Louise Ramé, better known as Ouida. We look closely at the Morgan’s first edition of Ouida’s “A Dog of Flanders,” her 1872 novel, which has gained worldwide acclaim as a children's book.
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Her 1872 novel A Dog of Flanders is considered a children's classic in much of Asia. The American author Jack London cited her novel Signa as one of the reasons for his literary success. Her lavish lifestyle eventually led her to penury, and her works were put up for auction to pay her debts.
English author Maria Louise Ramé, who operated and published the work under the pseudonym Ouida, published A Dog of Flanders in 1872. The novel is set in Antwerp, Belgium and follows a boy and his dog's adventures in the town. Nello, on one hand, is a kind boy and aspiring painter who has big dreams.
