Ada Cambridge

Life

Born: 21 November 1844

Died: 19 July 1926

Biography

Born in Norfolk, England, she married the Rev. George Frederick Cross in 1870 and moved with him to Australia only weeks later. Her formal published career spans 1865 to 1922. Nancy Cato (1989) writes that 'some of her ideas were considered daring and even a little improper for a clergyman's wife'. She moved back to England in 1923 with her husband until his death in 1927, after which she returned to Australia. A street in the Canberra suburb of Cook is named in her honour.

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Settings of text by Ada Cambridge

• Desire (Mark Chapman)

Publications

• Hymns on the Litany (1865)
• Hymns on the Holy Communion (1866)
• The Manor House: and Other Poems (1875)
• My Guardian (Novel, 1877)
• In Two Years' Time (Novel, 1879)
• A Mere Chance (Novel, 1882)
• Unspoken Thoughts (Novel, 1887)
• A Woman's Friendship (Serialised in the Age, 1889; first published in book form in 1988)
• A Marked Man (Novel, 1890)
• The Three Miss Kings (Novel, 1891)
• Not All in Vain (Novel, 1892)
• A Little Minx (Novel, 1893)
• A Marriage Ceremony (Novel, 1894),
• Fidelis (Novel, 1895)
• A Humble Enterprise (Novel, 1896),
• At Midnight: and Other Stories (1897)
• Materfamilias (Novel, 1898),
• Path and Goal (Novel, 1900)
• The Devastators (Novel, 1901)
• Thirty Years in Australia (Memoir, 1903)
• Sisters (Novel, 1904)
• A Platonic Friendship (Novel, 1905)
• A Happy Marriage (Novel, 1906)
• The Eternal Feminine (Novel, 1907)
• The Retrospect (Memoir, 1912)
• The Hand in the Dark: and Other Poems (1913)
• The Making of Rachel Rowe (Novel, 1914)

External links

• http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/cambridge-ada/