Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.

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 Austr

Ada Cambridge is the author of:

Hymns on the Litany (1865) verse.

Hymns on the Holy Communion (1866) verse

The Manor House and Other Poems (1875)

My Guardian (1878)

In Two Years’ Time (1879) Serialised 1878.

A Mere Chance (1882) Serialised 1880

Unspoken Thoughts (1887) verse. Repub. 1988, ed. By Patricia Barton.

A Little Minx (1889) Serialised 1885.

The Devastators (1890)

A Marked Man (1890) Serialised 1888-89 as A Black Sheep 

The Three Miss Kings (1891) Serialised 1883. 

Not All In Vain (1892) Serialised 1890-91.

A Marriage Ceremony (1893) Serialised 1884-85 as Mrs Carnegie’s Husband.

Fidelis (1895)

A Humble Enterprise (1896) Serialised 1891 as The Charm That Works

At Midnight and Other Stories ((1897)

Materfamilias (1898)

Path and Goal (1900)

Thirty Years in Australia (1903) 

Sisters (1904)

A Platonic Friendship (1905)

A Happy Marriage (1906)

The Eternal Feminine (1907)

The Hand in the Dark (1913) verse.

The Making of Rachel Rowe (1914)

A Woman’s Friendship serialised 1889, (pub.1988) ed. by Elizabeth Morrison