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Ada Barnett
1864–1953
A British novelist with a gift for popular storytelling, she published under her own name and the pseudonym G. Cardella. Her career stretched from late Victorian fiction into the years after the First World War, giving her work a strong sense of changing times.
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The man on the other side
by Ada Barnett
About the author
Born in Tooting in 1864, Ada Barnett was an English novelist who wrote both as Ada Barnett and under the pen name G. Cardella. She came from a large family and spent much of her early life in comfortable surroundings before building a long writing career of her own.
Barnett became known for fiction that appealed to a wide readership, and her novels continued to appear across several decades. That long span gives her work an interesting place between Victorian traditions and the social shifts of the early 20th century.
She was appointed MBE, and she died on April 11, 1953. Today she is remembered mainly through her novels and through the renewed availability of some of her books in digital libraries and reprints.