O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
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Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
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Birth: | 21st November, 1844 |
Death: | 19th July, 1926 |
Nationality: | Australian |
Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Poet, Writer |
Ada Cambridge, later known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian writer. Overall she wrote more than twenty-five works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works. Many of her novels were serialised in Australian newspapers, and were never published in book form. While she was known to friends and family by her married name, Ada Cross, she was known to her newspaper readers as A.C.. Later in her career she reverted to her maiden name, Ada Cambridge, and it is thus by this name that she is known.
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