Ada Cambridge: 32 books

Strangely readable tale of a woman who leaves home because her father remarried, and she, herself, marries--out of spite. Her husband leaves her, and she travels to Australia to find him, as, he had fallen ill. Her adventure and misadventures mount one upon another after that. A very good read. Adventure, romance, and sometimes, satire abound. Recommended.

My father in England married a second time when I was about eighteen. She was my governess. Mother herself had engaged her, and I believe had asked, when dying, that she would remain to take care of us; and I don't say that she was not a good woman. She had been nearly five years in the house, and we...

Amongst the hundreds and thousands of pretty and cosy little villa houses that cluster round our Melbourne city, The Nest, at St. Kilda is one that seldom escapes the notice of the passer-by. It stands a little back from the street, at the top of a sloping lawn, a one storied, broad verandahed, rose...