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The most significant English novelist to write on Italy in the 1870s was Ouida. After occasionally using purely conventional Italian scenery in a very minor way in some of her earlier novels (Chandos, 1866; Idalia, 1867; and Puck, 1870), she fell in love with the country on her first visit there in 1871, settled in Florence, and thereafter looked constantly to Italy for her literary material.
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See E. Bigland, Ouida. The Passionate Victorian (London, 1950) p. 42.
Ouida, Views & Opinions (London, 1895) P. 274.
Ouida, Pascarel (London, 1873) vol. ii, p. 133.
F. M. Crawford, Sant’ Ilario (London, 1889) vol. i, pp. 76–7.
F. M. Crawford, Saracinesca (London, 1887) vol. i, p. 17.
He visited Italy at least 25 times: see C. Vita-Finzi, ‘Samuel Butler and Italy’, Italian Studies xviii (1963) 79. The quotation is from Alps and Sanctuaries (ed. 1913) p. 21.
G. Gissing, By The Ionian Sea (London, 1901) p. 6.
Corvo, Stories Toto Told Me (London, 1898) p. 65. (volere bené = to love; literally, to wish well.).
Cf. A.J. A. Symons, The Quest For Corvo (London, 1934) cd. 1955, P. 244.
Corvo, The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole Ed. 1953, p. 255. (Cassell, London).
Quoted in D. Weeks, Corvo (London, 1971) p. 358.
Published as A Selection, from The Venice Letters ed. C. Woolf in Art & Literature, v (Lausanne, 1965) pp. 9–63.
N. Douglas, Siren Land & Fountains in The Sun (London, 1957) p. 28.
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Churchill, K. (1980). Italy and the English Novel, 1870–1917. In: Italy and English Literature 1764–1930. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04642-3_13
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