Ada Cambridge

Roe argues that Cambridge contemplated the role of women in colonial society and her ability to participate in intellectual discussion in her early poetry. But…

Ada Cambridge is now well-known for her 'autobiography' and delightful collection of memoirs, Thirty Years in Australia (London: Methuen, 1903). What is not well-known is…

Reviews of the following volumes:

The Poets' Discovery, edited by Richard D. Jordan and Peter Pierce Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1990.

Colonial Voices: Letters,…

Barton examines the revisions between Unspoken Thoughts and The Hand in the Dark and concludes that central to an undestanding of Cambridge’s work is “the…

Ada Cambridge's husband, the Reverend George Frederick Cross, hardly sounds an exciting figure. On the evidence of his wife's first memoir, Thirty Years in Australia…

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:…

The combined output of these three writers was about seventy-five books, not to mention individual stories, articles and journalism. The authors have done remarkably well…

It is still commonly assumed that Ada Cambridge's descriptions of 'the Camp' in Thirty Years in Australia, A Marked Man and Fidelis refer to…

During a recent visit to England, my co-researcher, Louise Wakeling, and I were fortunate enough to make some discoveries significant to the current revival of…

Bradstock responds to previous critics who argued that Cambridge yielded to convention and limited her thought. Bradstock argues that Cambridge entertained quite unconventional attitudes in…

Ada Cambridge's novels have often been grouped, for discussion, into those serialised in issues of the Australasian in the 1870s and 1880s, and those published…

Weighs the evidence that a recently discovered collection of poetry, Echoes (1869), attributed to 'A.C.', was authored by Ada Cambridge.

‘Through an examination of works by four late nineteenth-century women writers … which explores their differing intersections with medievalism as a temporal discourse, this essay…