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  • Author:agent Ada Cambridge http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/cambridge-ada
Issue Details: First known date: 1904... 1904 Sisters : A Novel
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    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 1989 .
      Extent: 236p.p.
      ISBN: 0140127275
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Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape Zoe Smith , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024;
General Analysis of Ada Cambridge's Sisters from the Perspective of Feminism Xin Xin Li , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Xihua University , September vol. 32 no. 5 2013; (p. 64-67) 'The novel of Sisters, created in 1944, was considered to be one of the most significant works produced by Ada Cambridge, who was born and had grown up in Britain in the late 19th Century, and later immigrated to Australia, the new Continent. During that time, the first feminist movement began to sprout, and gradually reached its great popularity in western countries, especially in Britain. It's obvious that Ada Cambridge had been greatly influenced by this movement. Among all of her works, novels are of her great success, and Sisters is one of them. Epitomizing Ada's feminist concepts, this novel depicts the lives of four sisters from a broken-down aristocratic family, centered on which, various views of different social classes on love, marriage, money, identity and social status at that time are discussed in detail. This paper aims at tentatively interpreting the novel of Sister.. from the perspective of feminism, offering readers a quite different interpretation about it.'  (Publication abstract)
 
 
The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge Greg Manning , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 71-79) 'The reading of Ada Cambridge's fiction described in this paper is part of a pursuit of an undercurrent in Australian self-representations of what I can perhaps best describe as a strain of ontological doubt - doubt not about what it means to be Australian so much as about what it might mean, in Australia, to be. As is to be expected, intimations of this uncertainty - not quite an idea, nor yet an emotion, nor a self-consistent state - emerge first in colonial writings, often around the figure of disappearance, or of being invisible. They concern the intersubjective European response to Australian space, the sense that to live in the antipodes was not merely to live, in the world's terms, an eclipsed and therefore insignificant life - that much was obvious - but was to be silent, invisible, not to signify: semiotically speaking, to cease to be. One associative consequence of this sense is the thought that antipodean space is itself liminal, para-real, otherworldly. Such an imaginary landscape is of course both constructed by and significantly constructive of any sense of being-yet-not-being in the world. The doubt of which I speak is ideological only in the sense that it emerged in the colonies as part of the imaginary relation to the real condition of inhabiting Australian space, as an element in what we might call the colonial imaginary. It was never programmatically imposed to serve hegemonic interests; to the contrary, it served no interest at all. Its emergence can be compared to the formation of a national accent, in that both are more or less apparent but quite unintended and uncontrolled consequences of establishing a new society. Perhaps, in the context of our conference topic, this idea might be imagined as the shadow of the fear of meaninglessness, stretching itself across colonial attempts to make newly claimed spaces, and lives in those spaces, meaningful.' (Author's abstract p. 71)
A Bad Literary Mother? Sue Thomas , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 10 no. 1 1991; (p. 70-72)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
Social Criticism Marks Early Women's Novels... Marian Arkin , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 5 no. 1 1991; (p. 61)
— Review of Mo Burdekin Sarah Campion , 1941 single work novel ; Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
Drawing the Line Reba Gostand , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , July vol. 9 no. 2 1990; (p. 59)
— Review of Spider Cup Marion Halligan , 1990 single work novel ; Over the Top with Jim : Hugh Lunn's Tap-Dancing, Bugle-Blowing Memoir of a Well-Spent Boyhood Hugh Lunn , 1989 single work autobiography ; Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel ; North of the Moonlight Sonata Kerryn Goldsworthy , 1989 selected work short story ; Longhand : A Writer's Notebook Murray Bail , 1989 single work autobiography novel ; Mo Burdekin Sarah Campion , 1941 single work novel
Social Criticism Marks Early Women's Novels... Marian Arkin , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 5 no. 1 1991; (p. 61)
— Review of Mo Burdekin Sarah Campion , 1941 single work novel ; Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
Untitled 1904 single work review
— Appears in: The Book Lover , 1 December vol. 6 no. 68 1904; (p. 145)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
A Not-So-Happy-Ever-After Ending Patricia Clarke , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 February 1990; (p. B4)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
Growing Up : Young Ladies' Trials Through the Ages Robin Lucas , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 January. 1990; (p. 62)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel Ada Cambridge , 1904 single work novel
Ada Cambridge : Creative Roles - Fact or Fiction Patricia Barton , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Role Playing, Creativity, Therapy : A Joint Seminar of the English Department, University College, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra and the School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales 1987; (p. 33-46) Barton aims to ' construct a reading of ... [Cambridge's] later novels ... as explorations of women's roles', at the same time maintaining a 'clear distinction between conflicts expressed in Cambridge's writing and those she may have consciously experienced or resolved in her own life.'
The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge Greg Manning , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australia : Making Space Meaningful 2007; (p. 71-79) 'The reading of Ada Cambridge's fiction described in this paper is part of a pursuit of an undercurrent in Australian self-representations of what I can perhaps best describe as a strain of ontological doubt - doubt not about what it means to be Australian so much as about what it might mean, in Australia, to be. As is to be expected, intimations of this uncertainty - not quite an idea, nor yet an emotion, nor a self-consistent state - emerge first in colonial writings, often around the figure of disappearance, or of being invisible. They concern the intersubjective European response to Australian space, the sense that to live in the antipodes was not merely to live, in the world's terms, an eclipsed and therefore insignificant life - that much was obvious - but was to be silent, invisible, not to signify: semiotically speaking, to cease to be. One associative consequence of this sense is the thought that antipodean space is itself liminal, para-real, otherworldly. Such an imaginary landscape is of course both constructed by and significantly constructive of any sense of being-yet-not-being in the world. The doubt of which I speak is ideological only in the sense that it emerged in the colonies as part of the imaginary relation to the real condition of inhabiting Australian space, as an element in what we might call the colonial imaginary. It was never programmatically imposed to serve hegemonic interests; to the contrary, it served no interest at all. Its emergence can be compared to the formation of a national accent, in that both are more or less apparent but quite unintended and uncontrolled consequences of establishing a new society. Perhaps, in the context of our conference topic, this idea might be imagined as the shadow of the fear of meaninglessness, stretching itself across colonial attempts to make newly claimed spaces, and lives in those spaces, meaningful.' (Author's abstract p. 71)
y separately published work icon 'Mater Dear' as Monster or Angel? : The Ideology of Motherhood in the Fiction of Ada Cambridge A. C. Boyle , 1991 Z535853 1991 single work thesis
General Analysis of Ada Cambridge's Sisters from the Perspective of Feminism Xin Xin Li , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Xihua University , September vol. 32 no. 5 2013; (p. 64-67) 'The novel of Sisters, created in 1944, was considered to be one of the most significant works produced by Ada Cambridge, who was born and had grown up in Britain in the late 19th Century, and later immigrated to Australia, the new Continent. During that time, the first feminist movement began to sprout, and gradually reached its great popularity in western countries, especially in Britain. It's obvious that Ada Cambridge had been greatly influenced by this movement. Among all of her works, novels are of her great success, and Sisters is one of them. Epitomizing Ada's feminist concepts, this novel depicts the lives of four sisters from a broken-down aristocratic family, centered on which, various views of different social classes on love, marriage, money, identity and social status at that time are discussed in detail. This paper aims at tentatively interpreting the novel of Sister.. from the perspective of feminism, offering readers a quite different interpretation about it.'  (Publication abstract)
 
 
Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape Zoe Smith , 2024 single work column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024;
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