
The Retrospect
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About This Book
Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 – 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works. Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, she was known to her newspaper readers as A.C.. Later in her career she reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and it is thus by this name that she is known.Ada was born at St Germans, Norfolk,...
Chapters (33)
- THE RETROSPECT
- ADA CAMBRIDGE
- AUTHOR OF "THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA," "PATH AND GOAL," ETC.
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I
- COMING HOME
- CHAPTER II
- ABOUT TOWN
- CHAPTER III
- IN BEAUTIFUL ENGLAND
- CHAPTER IV
- THE HOME OF CHILDHOOD
- CHAPTER V
- HALCYON DAYS
- CHAPTER VI
- EARLIEST RECOLLECTIONS
- CHAPTER VII
- OLD TIMES AND NEW
- CHAPTER VIII
- SOME EARLY SUNDAYS
- CHAPTER IX
- MY GRANDFATHER'S DAYS
- CHAPTER X
- OUTDOOR LIFE
- CHAPTER XI
- AT THE SEASIDE
- CHAPTER XII
- EXCURSIONS TO SANDRINGHAM
- CHAPTER XIII
- A TRIP SOUTH
- CHAPTER XIV DEVON, GLORIOUS DEVON
- CHAPTER XV
- IN THE GARDEN OF ENGLAND
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