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Author:agent Elizabeth Morrison

Issue Details: First known date: 1988... 1988 A Woman's Friendship [1988] : Editor's Introduction

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y A Woman's Friendship Ada Cambridge , 1889 single work novel satire (taught in 1 units) Abstract '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)
Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 1988
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pg. xiii-lvii