奥维达(Ouida /ˈwiːdə/;1839年1月1日—1908年1月25日[1]),或译薇達,原名玛丽亚·路易丝·拉梅(Maria Louise Ramé,她本人倾向使用Marie Louise de la Ramée),是一名英国小说家,以笔名“奥维达”知名。她创作出像是《弗兰德斯的狗》等四十多部小说和大量的短片故事、散文。她的小说十分畅销,稿费颇丰,因此生活也十分奢靡,经常在伦敦的豪华酒店里举办沙龙,最终她的财富被她挥霍一空,去世后留下大笔的债务。
^Encyclopedia, Britannica. Ouida.. [15 January 2008]. (原始内容存档于2008-05-15).
^ 2.02.1"Maria Louise Rame" (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), birth record, Bury St. Edmunds, FreeBMD, accessed 14 September 2019. Note: Does not include any information about parents.
^Schroeder, Natalie, and Shari Hodges Holt (2008). Ouida the Phenomenon: Evolving Social, Political, and Gender Concerns in her Fiction. Newark: University of Delaware Press. p. 14. ISBN9780874130331.
^The New York Times (页面存档备份,存于互联网档案馆), 29 January 1908. Note: Ouida was identified as the sister of the US Civil War officer, Col. George Roy Gliddoth. She was said to have "left her home in America at a tender age under the care of a woman who adopted her as her daughter." Another article about her supposed Gliddoth family was reported in Publishers Weekly at the same time.