Ada Cambridge — a remark

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“But, looking back, and trying to be strictly fair all round, I am not sure that the women of the fifties were so much less sensible (according to their lesser lights) than their descendants of to-day.”

Resisting easy assumptions of superiority over women of an earlier generation · Memoir, The Retrospect (1912)

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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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