Item Detail
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Cambridge, Ada (1844-1926)
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née Cambridge; married name Cross; A. C.; Mrs. George F. Cross
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novelist, poet, children's writer, periodical contributor, hymnist, travel writer
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English; born in Wiggenhall St Germans, Norfolk; migrated to Australia
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daughter of Thomasine Emerson & Henry Cambridge; wife of Revd George Frederick Cross
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Australasian
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- The Illustrated Book of Sacred Poems. Robert H. Baynes, ed. London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, 1867.
- In Memoriam: A Guide to the History and Heritage of Victoria's Cemeteries. Melbourn, Victoria, Australia: Hardie Grant Books, 2014. (https://doczz.net/doc/760641/in-memoriam)
- Gleanings from the Sacred Poets, with Biographical Notices of the Authors. Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1882.
- Victorian Women Writers Project. Indiana University (https://libraries.indiana.edu/resources/victorianwomen)
- Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University (http://adb.anu.edu.au/)
- Pitman, Emma Raymond. Lady Hymn Writers. London: T. Nelson & Sons, 1892.
- Miller, Josiah. Singers and Songs of the Church: Being Biographical Sketches of the Church. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1869. 2nd ed. (https://books.google.com/books?id=p-c-AAAAYAAJ&pg)
- Bassett, Troy J. At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901. © 2022 Troy J. Bassett (http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/)
- Who Was Who
- The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals, 1824-1900 (http://wellesley.chadwyck.com/marketing/index.jsp)
- Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present (http://orlando.cambridge.org/)
- Blain, Virginia; Clements, Patricia; Grundy, Isobel. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. © Oxford University Press
- Theakstone, John. Victorian & Edwardian Women Travellers: A Bibliography of Books Published in English. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino, 2006.
- Reilly, Catherine. Mid-Victorian Poetry, 1860-1879: An Annotated Biobibliography. London: Mansell, 2000.
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• wrote "The First and Last Communion" Hymns on the Holy Communion Hymns on the Litany The Manor House and Other Poems A Marked Man The Three Miss Kings Not All in Vain Fidelis Materfamilias Unspoken Thoughts Thirty Years in Australia My Guardian