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Thirty Years in Australia

Ada Cambridge (1844–1926)

Memoir · first published 1903 · London: Methuen

Cambridge's memoir of life as a clergyman's wife in country Victoria from 1870: floods, bushfires, parish life and writing.

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About 89,420 words · roughly 6.3 hours of reading (medium) · 20 sections online · In: Early women writers

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Ada Cambridge (author) died in 1926. Australian copyright then lasted 50 years after the author's death, so it ended on 31 December 1976. The 2005 extension to 70 years did not revive copyright that had already expired.

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First published in 1903. In the United States, works published before 1 January 1931 are in the public domain.

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Contents

  1. THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA
  2. THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA
  3. BY
  4. ADA CAMBRIDGE
  5. AUTHOR OF "PATH AND GOAL" AND "THE DEVASTATORS"
  6. METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON 1903
  7. TO MY TWO LIVING CHILDREN AND THE DEAR MEMORY OF ONE WHO WAS LIVING WHEN I WROTE IT I DEDICATE THIS BOOK
  8. CONTENTS
  9. THIRTY YEARS IN AUSTRALIA
  10. CHAPTER I ToC
  11. "ISLE OF BEAUTY, FARE THEE WELL!"
  12. CHAPTER II ToC
  13. AUSTRALIA FELIX
  14. CHAPTER III ToC
  15. THE BUSH
  16. CHAPTER IV ToC
  17. THE FIRST HOME
  18. CHAPTER V ToC
  19. DIK
  20. CHAPTER VI ToC
  21. THE SECOND HOME
  22. CHAPTER VII ToC
  23. THE THIRD HOME
  24. CHAPTER VIII ToC
  25. THE MURRAY JOURNEY
  26. CHAPTER IX ToC
  27. LOCAL COLOUR
  28. CHAPTER X ToC
  29. THE FOURTH HOME
  30. CHAPTER XI ToC
  31. THE FIFTH HOME
  32. CHAPTER XII ToC
  33. THE SIXTH HOME
  34. CHAPTER XIII ToC
  35. THE BOOM
  36. CHAPTER XIV ToC
  37. THE SEVENTH HOME
  38. CHAPTER XV ToC
  39. TOBY
  40. CHAPTER XVI ToC
  41. THE GREAT STRIKE
  42. CHAPTER XVII ToC
  43. OVER THE BORDER
  44. CHAPTER XVIII ToC
  45. THE END OF BUSH LIFE
  46. CHAPTER XIX ToC
  47. THE EIGHTH HOME
  48. CHAPTER XX ToC
  49. CONCLUSION
  50. THE END
  51. Colston & Coy., Limited, Printers. Edinburgh

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