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'The grand Melbourne Exhibition of 1888 is a most agreeable place for Margaret Clive, a journalist’s wife, and Patty Kinnaird, married to a squatter, to pursue their ‘purely intellectual friendship’ with handsome, widowed and wealthy Seaton Macdonald ... The triangular relationship changes, however, when the women are house guests at Yattock, Macdonald’s magnificent country property - and unadmitted attractions begin to surface.
'In this gentle satire of class and sexuality, Ada Cambridge opens a window on Melbourne society of the 1880s and illuminates some important issues of the day - reform of dress and diet, the ‘marriage question’, socialism and women’s suffrage.' (Publication summary)
'In this gentle satire of class and sexuality, Ada Cambridge opens a window on Melbourne society of the 1880s and illuminates some important issues of the day - reform of dress and diet, the ‘marriage question’, socialism and women’s suffrage.' (Publication summary)
Contents
* Contents derived from the
Sydney,
New South Wales,:University of New South Wales Press
, 1988 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
- A Woman's Friendship [1988] : Editor's Introduction, single work criticism biography (p. xiii-lvii)
- The Reform Club, single work short story (p. 143-168)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Convergence and Divergence in Ada Cambridge's 'A Woman's Friendship
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies , Spring vol. 40 no. 2 2018; (p. 33-42)'Although Ada Cambridge is a major writer of the colonial period, she has long been neglected in Australian literary history. Her serial novel 'A Woman's Friendship', published in the Melbourne paper 'The Age' (August-October 1889), was widely read and circulated and, as such, offered a way in the social and gender debates of the time. This paper aims to reflect on Cambridge's ambivalent representation of female characters and gender issues in the 1880s Australian society, oscillating between convergence and divergence with conventions, and between conformism and radicalism.' (Publication abstract)
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Ada Cambridge and the Woman Question
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Real Relations : The Feminist Politics of Form in Australian Fiction 2000; (p. 18-32, notes 150-151) -
Beyond the Wattle: Recent Perspectives on Australian Colonial Literature
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 23 no. 2 1999; (p. 116-127) -
A Revised Perception of Ada Cambridge
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Margin , November no. 49 1999; (p. 24-28) -
Untitled
1998
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 44 1998; (p. 18-20)
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Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 14 no. 4 1990; (p. 525-529)
— Review of Eight Voices of the Eighties : Stories, Journalism and Criticism by Australian Women Writers 1989 anthology criticism extract short story autobiography correspondence prose review interview ; A Woman's Friendship 1889 single work novel ; Colonial Voices : Letters, Diaries, Journalism and Other Accounts of Nineteenth-Century Australia 1989 anthology correspondence biography prose autobiography short story ; The Fortunes of Mary Fortune 1989 selected work autobiography prose ; The Poet's Discovery : Nineteenth Century Australia in Verse 1990 anthology poetry biography -
Biography and its Fictions: Ada Cambridge and the Temptations of `Herstory'
1992
single work
review
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Third Quarter vol. 16 no. 3 1992; (p. 125-134)
— Review of Ada Cambridge : Her Life and Work 1844-1926 1991 single work biography ; A Woman's Friendship 1889 single work novel ; Thirty Years in Australia 1903 single work autobiography ; Rattling the Orthodoxies : A Life of Ada Cambridge 1991 single work biography -
Ada Cambridge Takes Up "Unladylike" Subjects...
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 5 no. 2 1991; (p. 162-163)
— Review of Rattling the Orthodoxies : A Life of Ada Cambridge 1991 single work biography ; A Woman's Friendship 1889 single work novel -
Reconstructing Ada Cambridge
1989
single work
review
— Appears in: Meridian , October vol. 8 no. 2 1989; (p. 184-187)
— Review of Unspoken Thoughts 1887 selected work poetry ; A Woman's Friendship 1889 single work novel -
Shy Colonial Woman of Substance is Discovered At Last
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 18-19 August 1990; (p. 5)
— Review of Thirty Years in Australia 1903 single work autobiography ; A Woman's Friendship 1889 single work novel -
Editing a Newspaper Novel for the Colonial Text Series : 'A Woman's Friendship'
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Editing in Australia 1990; (p. 113-123) -
Untitled
1998
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Margin , April no. 44 1998; (p. 18-20) -
Beyond the Wattle: Recent Perspectives on Australian Colonial Literature
1999
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 23 no. 2 1999; (p. 116-127) -
Canon to the Right of Us, Canon to the Left of Us
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: New Literatures Review , Summer no. 17 1989; (p. 69-79) -
The Meanings of a Scholarly Edition
1989
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , Second Quarter vol. 13 no. 2 1989; (p. 41-50)
Last amended 25 Aug 2023 10:03:42
Subjects:
- Bush,
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Mount Macedon, Gisborne - Woodend area, Sunbury - Kyneton area, Melbourne, Victoria,
- Victoria,
- Urban,
Settings:
- 1880s
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