“I performed my part of this contract not wholly without pleasure in it…” — Ada Cambridge

“I performed my part of this contract not wholly without pleasure in it, and I have no doubt that I owe to her my first taste for literature and the bent towards authorship which afterwards became a fixed line.”

Tracing her eventual vocation as a writer to an early influence on her reading · Memoir, The Retrospect (1912)

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Ada Cambridge

About Ada Cambridge

21 November 1844–19 July 1926

Ada Cambridge, who would become one of colonial Australia's most prolific and quietly subversive literary voices, was born on 21 November 1844 at St Germans, Norfolk, England. She was the second child of Thomasine and Henry Cambridge, a gentleman farmer of comfortable means. The Norfolk countryside, with its flat…

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