Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta Story – Part 5
Ada Cambridge, as we have seen in previous posts in this series, enjoyed an active social life. There were bazaars and church teas and such things – quite as exciting as the private functions – at which our circle of friends and acquaintances was...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta Story – Part 4
After doctors, bankers came next in social importance in Wangaratta according to Ada Cambridge’s memoir Thirty Years in Australia. She described them as “the backbone of country society”, remarking how important it was that “they should be...
Ada Cambridge and the Wangaratta story – Part 3
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
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
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...
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