Introduction

Biography

Ada was the daught­er of Hen­ry Cam­bridge, and wife of George Fred­er­ick Cross (mar­ried 1869).

George took Ho­ly Or­ders in 1870 in Eng­land. Af­ter va­ri­ous cu­ra­cies in Aus­tral­ia, he be­came In­cum­bent of Co­ler­aine, dio­cese of Bal­la­rat, in 1877.

Works

• Hymns on the Li­ta­ny (Lon­don & Ox­ford, En­gland: John Hen­ry & James Park­er,1865)
• Hymns on the Ho­ly Com­mun­ion, 1866
• The Ma­nor House and Oth­er Po­ems (Lon­don: Daldy, Is­bis­ter, 1875)
• Unspoken Thoughts (Lon­don: Ke­gan Paul, Trench, 1887)
• At Mid­night and Oth­er Sto­ries (Lon­don: Ward, Lock, 1897)
• Thirty Years in Aus­tra­lia, 1903
• Sisters (Lon­don: Hutch­in­son, 1904)
• The Eter­nal Fe­mi­nine, 1907
• The Hand in the Dark and Oth­er Po­ems (Lon­don: Will­iam Hein­emann, 1913)
• The Mak­ing of Ra­chel Rowe, 1914

She al­so con­trib­ut­ed to Lays of the Pi­ous Min­strels, 1862; Eng­lish Lyr­ics; and pub­lished a prose sto­ry, The Two Sur­plic­es, 1865, and tales in va­ri­ous ma­ga­zines.