Ada Cambridge — a remark

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“Of the many happy experiences of life, few can match that of finding you have been one of the deities of a faithful heart for over twenty years of absence without knowing it.”

On discovering that affection has endured faithfully through decades of separation · Memoir, The Retrospect (1912)

About Ada Cambridge

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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