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Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape
2024
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— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024; -
General Analysis of Ada Cambridge's Sisters from the Perspective of Feminism
2013
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— 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)
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The Accommodation of Ada Cambridge
2007
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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?
1991
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review
— Appears in: Meridian , May vol. 10 no. 1 1991; (p. 70-72)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel -
Social Criticism Marks Early Women's Novels...
1991
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— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 5 no. 1 1991; (p. 61)
— Review of Mo Burdekin 1941 single work novel ; Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel
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Drawing the Line
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , July vol. 9 no. 2 1990; (p. 59)
— Review of Spider Cup 1990 single work novel ; Over the Top with Jim : Hugh Lunn's Tap-Dancing, Bugle-Blowing Memoir of a Well-Spent Boyhood 1989 single work autobiography ; Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel ; North of the Moonlight Sonata 1989 selected work short story ; Longhand : A Writer's Notebook 1989 single work autobiography novel ; Mo Burdekin 1941 single work novel -
Social Criticism Marks Early Women's Novels...
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , June vol. 5 no. 1 1991; (p. 61)
— Review of Mo Burdekin 1941 single work novel ; Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel -
Untitled
1904
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— Appears in: The Book Lover , 1 December vol. 6 no. 68 1904; (p. 145)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel -
A Not-So-Happy-Ever-After Ending
1990
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 3 February 1990; (p. B4)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel -
Growing Up : Young Ladies' Trials Through the Ages
1990
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 January. 1990; (p. 62)
— Review of Sisters : A Novel 1904 single work novel -
Ada Cambridge : Creative Roles - Fact or Fiction
1987
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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
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) -
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'Mater Dear' as Monster or Angel? : The Ideology of Motherhood in the Fiction of Ada Cambridge
1991
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1991
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General Analysis of Ada Cambridge's Sisters from the Perspective of Feminism
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)
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Friday Essay : ‘A Prisoner on the Rack’ – How 19th-century Australian Women Wrote about Marital Rape
2024
single work
column
— Appears in: The Conversation , 22 March 2024;
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