Ada Cambridge (1844–1926)
Auteur de The Three Miss Kings
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Spencer Shier, 1884-1950. Portrait of Ada Cambridge [picture] [1917-1926].
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an24862677
National Library of Australia, nla.pic-an24862677
Œuvres de Ada Cambridge
My guardian : a story of the fen country 3 exemplaires
The Premium Complete Collection of Ada Cambridge (Annotated): (Collection Includes Materfamilias, Sisters, The… 1 exemplaire
Dinah 1 exemplaire
A sweet day 1 exemplaire
The making of Rachel Rowe 1 exemplaire
A happy marriage 1 exemplaire
The eternal feminine 1 exemplaire
A platonic friendship 1 exemplaire
The devastators 1 exemplaire
Path and goal 1 exemplaire
A little minx, a sketch 1 exemplaire
A marriage ceremony 1 exemplaire
Hymns on the Holy Communion 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1850S-1930s (1987) — Contributeur — 11 exemplaires
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Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Cambridge, Ada
- Nom légal
- Cross, Ada
- Autres noms
- A. C.
- Date de naissance
- 1844-11-21
- Date de décès
- 1926-07-19
- Lieu de sépulture
- Brighton General Cemetery, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- St Germans, Norfolk, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia
- Lieux de résidence
- Downham, Norfolk, England, UK
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Wangaratta, Victoria, Australia
Yackandandah, Victoria, Australia
Ballan, Victoria, Australia
Coleraine, Victoria, Australia (tout afficher 10)
Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Beechworth, Victoria, Australia
Williamstown, Victoria, Australia
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK - Études
- governesses
- Professions
- novelist
poet
journalist
memoirist - Organisations
- Women Writers Club
Lyceum Club of Melbourne
Anglican Church - Courte biographie
- Ada Cambridge was born at St. Germans, Norfolk, England, the daughter of a gentleman farmer, and his wife. She had an idyllic childhood in the Norfolk countryside and was educated at home by governesses, reading widely. In 1870, she married George Frederick Cross, a clergyman with whom she would have five children. Cross was committed to British colonial service and a few weeks later, the couple went to live and work in Australia. They moved to towns around the country, where Ada gained a wide range of experience that she later recalled in her book Thirty Years in Australia (1903). She wrote during her leisure time from the hard-working life of a mother and wife of a country clergyman, and became the first significant Australian woman poet -- although The Hand in the Dark, considered her best work, did not appear until 1913. Her first novel Up the Murray was published as a serial in the Australasian in 1875. Her fourth novel, A Marked Man (1890) brought her financial success, and her next, The Three Miss Kings (1891) won her wider recognition in the UK as well as Australia. She wrote a total of 21 novels, three volumes of poetry, two autobiographies including The Retrospect (1912), and articles contributed to journals such as the Atlantic Monthly. Most of her work featured British colonial society and its distinctive styles and conventions. In 1913, she returned to England with her husband; after his death in 1917, she returned to Australia.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 29
- Aussi par
- 3
- Membres
- 226
- Popularité
- #99,470
- Évaluation
- 3.4
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 80