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Materfamilias
''Materfamilias'' (1898) is a novel by Australian writer Ada Cambridge. Story outline The novel is a first-person narrative that follows the life of a woman, Mary Braye, from the time she is first married until she becomes a grandmother. Critical reception In a very brief review ''The Queenslander'' noted: "Of all phases of life that dealing with domesticity is the most difficult to portray in a manner sufficiently attractive to command interest ed attention. In this art Ada Cambridge excels, and her latest book is fully equal to anything which has yet sprung from her pen. In addition to being an attractive story, ''Materfamilias'' has the recommendation of being instructive, with an underlying. well-developed moral." ''The Sydney Mail'' opined that the author "has written us hitherto many acceptable domestic stories, but we question whether she has ever done anything before to equal her new story, ''Materfamilias''... It is an admirable study of femininity in some of its grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Cambridge
Ada Cambridge (21 November 1844 – 19 July 1926), later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.Cato (1989) p. v Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers but never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, her newspaper readers knew her as ''A.C.'' She later reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and that is how she is known today. Life Ada was born at St Germans, Norfolk, the second child of Thomasine and Henry Cambridge, a gentleman farmer. She was educated by governesses, an experience she abhorred. She wrote in a book of reminiscences: "I can truthfully affirm that I never learned anything which would now be considered worth learning until I had done with them all and started foraging for myself. I did have a few months of boarding-school at the end, and went to sex school school f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Path And Goal
''Path and Goal'' (1900) is a novel by Australian writer Ada Cambridge. Story outline Adrian Black is a doctor who has settled in the fictional English provincial city of Wakeminster. The novel follows the doctor's various liaisons, especially with Ruth Strang, a woman he loves and then loses. Many years later, as widow and widower, they are re-united. Critical reception A reviewer in ''The Australian Town and Country Journal'' was not impressed with the work: "It is devoutly to be hoped that people in real life do not blunder as stupidly in the most important crises of life as the hero of Ada Cambridge's ''Path and Goal''... A somewhat melodramatic ending by no means atones for the lack of genuine human interest, and the artificial posing of the leading players in the piece." A reviewer in ''The Advertiser'' (Adelaide) noted the author's abilities but was non-plussed by the ending: "It is Miss Ada Cambridge's fault that she is not one of the first female writers of the day. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1898 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1898. Books * Louis Becke – ''The Mutineer: A Romance of Pitcairn Island'', with Walter James Jeffrey * Guy Boothby ** ''Across the World for a Wife'' ** ''Pharos the Egyptian'' * Ada Cambridge – '' Materfamilias'' * Mary Gaunt – '' Deadman's: An Australian Story'' * Gertrude Hart – ''Clouds That Pass'' * Louise Mack – ''Girls Together'' * Rosa Praed – '' The Scourge-Stick'' * Douglas Sladen – ''Trincolox'' * Ethel Turner – ''The Camp at Wandinong'' Short stories * Louis Becke – ''Rodman the Boatsteerer and Other Stories'' * Rolf Boldrewood – ''A Romance of Canvas Town and Other Stories'' * Guy Boothby – ''Billy Binks, Hero, and Other Stories'' * Albert Dorrington – "Castro's Last Sacrament" * Edward Dyson ** ''Below and On Top'' ** "The Conquering Bush" * Henry Lawson – "Bill, the Ventriloquial Rooster" * Ethel Mills – "A Box of Dead Rose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign ''Sovereign'' is a title which can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin , meaning 'above'. The roles of a sovereign vary from monarch, ruler or ... country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands. With an area of , Australia is the largest country by area in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country. Australia is the oldest, flattest, and driest inhabited continent, with the least fertile soils. It is a megadiverse country, and its size gives it a wide variety of landscapes and climates, with deserts in the centre, tropical Forests of Australia, rainforests in the north-east, and List of mountains in Australia, mountain ranges in the south-east. The ancestors of Aboriginal Australians began arriving from south east Asia approx ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
London
London is the capital and List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for two millennia. The City of London, its ancient core and financial centre, was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans as ''Londinium'' and retains its medieval boundaries.See also: Independent city#National capitals, Independent city § National capitals The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has for centuries hosted the national Government of the United Kingdom, government and Parliament of the United Kingdom, parliament. Since the 19th century, the name "London" has also referred to the metropolis around this core, historically split between the Counties of England, counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent, and Hertfordshire, which largely comprises Greater London ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
