Review of Thirty Years in Australia, Ada Cambridge: Her Life and World 1844-1926, Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge, Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist, and Bengala or Some Time Ago
Abstract
The opportunity to read Ada Cambridge's memoir—Thirty Years in Australia— alongside two biographies—Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life ofA da Cambridge* and Ada Cambridge: Her Life and Work 1844-1926—reminds us of the variability of constructions of the self, and the traps which lie in wait for those who attempt not only to record the factual details of a busy and interesting life but, a more elusive undertaking, to chart the conscious and unconscious forces of the personality.
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Published 1 May 1992 in Volume 15 No. 3. Subjects: Ada Cambridge, 19th Century Women Writers.
Cite as: Walker, Shirley. ‘Review of Thirty Years in Australia, Ada Cambridge: Her Life and World 1844-1926, Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge, Pioneer Writer: The Life of Louisa Atkinson: novelist, journalist, naturalist, and Bengala or Some Time Ago.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 1992, doi: 10.20314/als.65c07d71ea.