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Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 3

by Jenny Coates | 3 May 2019 | Ada Cambridge, North East Victoria, Wangaratta

After discussing the Police Magistrate who she considered the upper echelon of Wangaratta society in her memoir Thirty Years in Australia, Ada Cambridge tackled the doctors. Next to the P.M. in the social scale came the doctors. There were two, English gentleman both....

Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 2

by Jenny Coates | 20 Apr 2019 | Ada Cambridge, North East Victoria, Wangaratta

Continuing on a study of the personal memoir of novelist Ada Cambridge titled Thirty Years in Australia we come to the first description of her social life in Wangaratta. The town of W-, where we spent the first year of our Australian year, was a typical country-town...

Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 1

by Jenny Coates | 11 Apr 2019 | Ada Cambridge, North East Victoria, Wangaratta

Ada Cambridge was a well known, late 19th century novelist and poet. Born as Ada Cambridge in 1844 in Norfolk, England, she married the Reverend George Frederick Cross in Cambridgeshire in April 1870, and within five weeks the young couple had boarded a steamer...