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ADA Cambridge
Ada Cambridge's life story is rich and fascinating. She was a strong personality, resourceful, independent-minded, a writer at the cutting edge of nineteenth-century thought. Ada Cambridge's work was widely read in Australia, England and the United States. Acclaimed in her lifetime as a leading Australian writer, after her death in 1926 she was dismissed as merely a popular novelist. Today her work is being rediscovered and enjoyed for its irony and pity observation. In some twenty-five novels, volumes of verse and other writings, she explored the pressures that constrain the lives of women. She defended the dispossessed and attacked those forces that enslaved rather than liberated the minds of men and women. People, she insisted, should think for themselves. Dr Audrey Tate has degrees in both English Literature and Women's Studies. She teaches English Literature at the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sydney..
The Retrospect
There was a gap of thirty-eight years, almost to a day, between my departure from England (1870), a five-weeks-old young bride, and my return thither (1908), an old woman. And for about seven-eighths of that long time in Australia, while succeeding very well in making the best of things, I was never without a subconscious sense of exile, a chronic nostalgia, that could hardly bear the sight of a homeward-bound ship. This often-tantalised but ever-unappeased desire to be back in my native land wore the air of a secret sorrow gently shadowing an otherwise happy life, while in point of fact it was a considerable source of happiness in itself, as I now perceive. For where would be the interest a...
Thirty Years in Australia
Reminiscences of a parson's wife in Vic., includes brief reference to Aborigines of the Murray Valley area.
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Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 - 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, she was known to her newspaper readers as A.C.. Later in her career she reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and it is thus by this name that she is known Ada was born at St Germans, Norfolk, the second child of Thomasine and Henry Cambridge, a gentleman farmer. She was educated by governesses, an experience she abhorred. She wrote in a book of reminiscences: "I can truthfully affirm that I never learned anything which
The Three Miss Kings
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Thirty Years in Australia
"Thirty Years in Australia" by Ada Cambridge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
A Humble Enterprise
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A Woman's Friendship
A Woman's Friendship, one of the author's many newspaper novels, was serialised in the Age in 1889. It is now, for the first time, available in book form. Elizabeth Morrison's edition for the Colonial Texts Series is a careful rendering of the newspaper text, with an extended introduction and notes and, as an appendix, 'The Reform Club', a short story version written by Cambridge thirty-one years later. In this gentle satire of clase and sexuality, Ada Cambridge opens a window on Melbourne society of the 1880s and illuminates some important issues of the day - reform of dress and diet, the 'marriage question', socialism, and women's suffrage. The Grand Melbourne Exhibition of 1888 is a most agreeable place for Margaret Clive, a journalist's wife, and Patty Kinnaird, married to a squatter, to pursue their 'purely intellectual friendship' with handsome, widowed and wealthy Seaton Macdonald. The triangular relationship changes, however, when the women are house guests at Yarrock, MacDonalds magnificent country property - and unadmitted attractions begin to surface.
Rattling the Orthodoxies
One of several titles included in Penguin's Australian Women's Library series. Biography and analysis of the writings of a prominent 19th-century Australian female writer.
The Real Matilda
The Real Matilda book investigates the Australian experience of women in colonial times, and asks how far Australians have moved beyond formative influences - elites, convicts, the Irish - which have led to discriminatory attitudes towards women.
