Her comments on the family governesses reflect her early awareness of her class status. Her paternal grandfather, William Cambridge
, was a well-respected farmer and agriculturist, but his son Henry, AC
's father, did not...
Cultural formation
Ada Cambridge
Critics Margaret Bradstock
and Louise Wakeling
write that AC
's faith was strongly challenged by the deaths of her first two children: this was probably . . . the beginning of her questioning of Divine...
Literary responses
Ada Cambridge
An initial, though short, review of the book in the Athenæum was positive, declaring that the author has a nice ear for rhythm and a sense of style that confer a certain distinction upon all...
Literary responses
Ada Cambridge
Margaret Bradstock
suggested the subversive impulse of AC
's final book of poetry finds its expression in A Marked Man. Bradstock praised the characterization of Sue, whose rebellion against social convention ends in a...
Literary responses
Ada Cambridge
Although The Making of Rachel Rowe was not positively reviewed when it was first published, recent commentators like Margaret Bradstock
and Louise Wakeling
have praised the novel's compassionate depiction of Rachel's socially unacceptable status as...
Reception
Ada Cambridge
Scholar Margaret Bradstock
has argued for the attribution of Echoes to AC
on the grounds of the rhyme scheme, parallels between the poems and Cambridge's life, and similarity in subject matter to her earlier collections...
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Texts
Bradstock, Margaret. “Echoes of Ada Cambridge”. Southerly, Vol.
65
, No. 3, pp. 170-81.
Bradstock, Margaret, and Louise Wakeling. Rattling the Orthodoxies: A Life of Ada Cambridge. Penguin, 1991.
Cambridge, Ada, and Margaret Bradstock. Thirty Years in Australia. Sydney University Press, 2006.
Bradstock, Margaret. “Unspoken Thoughts: A Reassessment of Ada Cambridge”. Australian Literary Studies, Vol.