With great sadness, we share that Elizabeth Morrison, author of the acclaimed biography David Syme: Man of The Age, has died.
Elizabeth was a historian of nineteenth-century Australian print culture. As a lecturer in librarianship and a research fellow in Australian studies, she researched and wrote extensively about the cultural role of the nineteenth-century Australian press, particularly as a publisher of new fiction through newspaper serialisation. In addition to authoring several books, she located original novels by Ada Cambridge, which were serialised in The Age in 1888 and 1889, and edited them for re-publication in the Colonial Texts series (A Woman’s Friendship, 1988 and A Black Sheep, 2004).
Elizabeth was a warm, exceptionally clever and much-loved individual. Her biography of the Scottish-Australian newspaper proprietor David Syme filled a significant gap in the history of Victorian newspapers – we are honoured to have published it, and glad to have worked with her. We extend our condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.
