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Biography of Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge was born in Norfolk, England. When she married George Frederick Cross in 1870 she had already published works that revealed her strong religious beliefs. Cross was posted to Australia three weeks after their wedding, and he became Anglican minister to Wangaratta, Yackandandah, Ballan, Coleraine, Sandhurst and Beechworth in Victoria – finally moving to Williamstown in 1893. She lost two of her children during this time and her twenty-four year old son was to die in 1902. She returned to England for a visit in 1908, and again in 1912 when her husband retired. After Cross’s death in 1917 Cambridge returned to Victoria. In 1871 she was a contributor to the Australasian, Australian Journal, Bulletin, Atlantic Monthly and the Sydney Mail, writing poems and short sketches, short stories and essays. In 1875 she produced her first major work for the Australasian – a novel which was serialised. She continued to contribute serials to the Australasian, the Sydney Mail and The Age for the next twenty years. She also published novels that were not serialised and made for herself a literary reputation in Europe and in Australia. She, moreover, published five volumes of verse. Several of her novels were reprinted in the 1980s. ..
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