Ouida's novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about peasant life, because of the descriptions of scenery and the pleasanter sentiments, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehensible, spoke severely of Dickens, who \"had never drawn a gentleman,\" and considered Thackeray less at home in the great world than Bulwer—who, however, was
Ouida's novels for the sake of the Italian atmosphere. (They preferred those about peasant life, because of the descriptions of scenery and the pleasanter sentiments, though in general they liked novels about people in society, whose motives and habits were more comprehensible, spoke severely of Dickens, who \"had never drawn a gentleman,\" and considered Thackeray less at home in the great world than Bulwer—who, however, was
