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Elizabeth Morrison

Elizabeth Morrison was a historian of nineteenth-century Australian print culture. The political role of the newspaper press is a major theme of her Engines of Influence (2005), a study of Victoria’s country newspapers in the colonial period. She has researched and written extensively about the cultural role of the nineteenth-century Australian press as publisher of new fiction through newspaper serialisation. Locating significant original novels by noted author Ada Cambridge serialised in the Melbourne Age during 1888 and 1889, she edited them for re-publication in the Colonial Texts Series (A Woman’s Friendship, 1988 and A Black Sheep, 2004). She has a history PhD from Monash University, where she was a lecturer in librarianship and a research fellow in Australian studies. Elizabeth died in March 2026. https://publishing.monash.edu/2026/03/20/vale-elizabeth-morrison/

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  • Saskia Beudel in conversation with Mireille Juchau (NSW)

    Ashfield Library - Civic Centre Level 3/260 Liverpool Rd, Ashfield, NSW

    Saskia Beudel was in her late fifties when she decided to take on a serious alpine cycling challenge. Peaking is her account of those 111 days. The training, the history...

  • An evening with Lelia Green (Books@Stones, QLD)

    Books@Stones 360 Logan Road, Stones Corner, QLD

    Join us at Books@Stones on Monday 3 August, 6:30pm for an in-conversation event with Lelia Green and Susan Danby discussing The Digital Child. Adults spend an average of 44 hours...

  • The Digital Child: Lelia Green at Gleebooks

    Gleebooks 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe, New South Wales

    Adults spend an average of 44 hours on screens every week. How do we set up our kids for a healthy digital future? Digital media is sometimes blamed for stunting...

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