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Ada Cambridge
1844–1926
Remembered as a graceful chronicler of colonial Australian life, she wrote fiction, poetry, and memoir with a sharp eye for social detail. Her work often drew on the worlds she knew firsthand as the wife of an Anglican clergyman moving through Victorian-era communities.
10 Audiobooks
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 1
by Ada Cambridge
Thirty Years in Australia
by Ada Cambridge
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3
by Ada Cambridge
Materfamilias
by Ada Cambridge
A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 2
by Ada Cambridge
Sisters
by Ada Cambridge
A Humble Enterprise
by Ada Cambridge
The Retrospect
by Ada Cambridge
In two years' time, Vol. 1 (of 2)
by Ada Cambridge
The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story
by Ada Cambridge
About the author
Born in Norfolk, England, Ada Cambridge became an important English-born Australian writer after emigrating to Australia in 1870. Reliable biographical sources agree that she published widely across fiction, poetry, and autobiographical writing, and that much of her life in Australia informed her literary work.
She is especially noted for novels and stories that observed domestic life, religion, class, and the expectations placed on women in colonial society. Her years in a series of country and suburban parishes gave her rich material, and readers have continued to value her for the realism and feeling in her portraits of everyday life.
Cambridge died in 1926, but she remains a recognized figure in Australian literary history. Alongside her novels and poems, her memoir writing helps preserve a vivid personal record of nineteenth-century Australia.