Elizabeth Morrison Elizabeth Morrison i(A6551 works by)
Born: Established: 1936 ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon A Man of No Mean Talent : Donald Cameron and Australian Colonial Newspaper Fiction Elizabeth Morrison , Queanbeyan : Restitution Publishing , 2023 27903711 2023 single work biography 'Donald Cameron, gifted and flawed, produced a feast of fiction in colonial newspapers, much of it now online via Trove. His achievements (and failures) shed new light on Australian colonial literary production' (Publication summary) 
1 Press, Victoria Elizabeth Morrison , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : P 2014; (p. 360-363)
1 Syme Family Elizabeth Morrison , 2014 single work companion entry
— Appears in: A Companion to the Australian Media : S 2014; (p. 453-454)
1 Review : The Colonial Journals Elizabeth Morrison , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 29 no. 3 2014; (p. 132-136)

— Review of The Colonial Journals : And the Emergence of Australian Literary Culture Rachael Weaver , Ken Gelder , 2014 multi chapter work criticism
1 10 y separately published work icon David Syme : Man of the Age Elizabeth Morrison , Clayton : Monash University Publishing , 2014 7666090 2014 single work biography

'The Melbourne Age newspaper dominated the newspaper stage in Australia from the 1870s to the end of the colonial period. In the 1880s its circulation was far in excess of any other daily throughout all British colonial possessions and its proprietor, the driven, talented Scotsman David Syme, was acknowledged as the leader of the Australian press. For the influence that he and his newspapers exercised, he became a legend in his lifetime and for several generations after his death in 1908.

'Drawing on family and business records as well as newly digitised nineteenth-century newspaper archives, this biography of a powerful man of many parts seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of the life – primarily as press ‘baron’ but also as author and philosopher, financier, farmer, property developer and, not least, family man.' (Publication summary)

1 Notes on the Context Of Ada Cambridge’s The Perversity Of Human Nature Susan Lever , Elizabeth Morrison , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 13 no. 3 2013;
'This note gives biographical background to the publication of Cambridge's short novel, The Perversity of Human Nature and considers some of its references to the Aesthetic Movement and to St Kilda in the 1880s.'
1 The Rise of a Press Baron Elizabeth Morrison , Veronica Condon , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 9 February 2008; (p. 7)
1 y separately published work icon Engines of Influence : Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840-1890 Elizabeth Morrison , Carlton : Melbourne University Publishing , 2005 Z1725057 2005 multi chapter work criticism

'Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns.

'This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived, and highlights the major part played by them in helping construct the machinery of government, lay the foundations of party politics and foster a sense of rural Victorian identity.

'The country press was an important agent of political change leading up to events such as the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851, and the federation of the colony of Victoria with other British dependencies into a single nation at the end of the nineteenth century.

'Engines of Influence shows how country newspapers also exercised cultural authority, circulating ideas generated both within local communities and from the wider world.

'Towards the end of the fifty years examined, this rural press was becoming a close part of a unified political state, linked through the metropolitan press and agencies to a technologically-based global communications network.' (From the publisher's website.)

1 Introduction Elizabeth Morrison , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Black Sheep 2004; (p. xi-lxvii)
4 22 y separately published work icon A Black Sheep Ada Cambridge , 1888-1889 Z1129210 1888-1889 single work novel

' Following the fortunes of Richard Delavel as a rebellious Oxford undergraduate in 1850s England and a still restless middle-aged family man in 1880s Sydney, the story presents his life and loves, work and leisure, beliefs and hopes against a background of constraints and opportunities in Britain and Australia.' (Publication summary)

1 Serial Fiction in Australian Colonial Newspapers Elizabeth Morrison , 1995 single work criticism
— Appears in: Literature in the Marketplace : Nineteenth-Century British Publishing and Reading Practices 1995; (p. 306-324)
1 'Reliable Texts': Why Bother? Elizabeth Morrison , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Academy Editions Newsletter , October no. 3 1994; (p. 9-12)
1 y separately published work icon Academy Editions of Australian Literature Manual for Editors Paul Eggert , Elizabeth Morrison , Canberra : Australian Defence Force Academy. Australian Scholarly Editions Centre , 1994 Z250552 1994 single work bibliography
1 The Bibliographic Underpinnings of the Academy Editions Project Elizabeth Morrison , 1994 single work criticism
— Appears in: Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin , First Quarter vol. 18 no. 1 1994; (p. 13-23)
1 Class if Not Classic Elizabeth Morrison , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 155 1993; (p. 22-23)

— Review of A Sydney Sovereign and Other Tales Tasma , 1889 selected work short story novella ; The World is Round Louise Mack , 1896 single work novel
1 Untitled Elizabeth Morrison , 1993 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Historical Studies , October vol. 25 no. 101 1993; (p. 657-659)

— Review of As Good as a Yarn with You : Letters Between Miles Franklin, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Marjorie Barnard, Flora Eldershaw and Eleanor Dark 1996 anthology correspondence biography
1 Reading Victoria's Newspapers 1838-1901 Elizabeth Morrison , 1992 single work criticism
— Appears in: Books, Readers, Reading 1992; (p. 128-140)
1 y separately published work icon The Contribution of the Country Press to the Making of Victoria, 1840-1890 Elizabeth Morrison , Clayton : 1991 Z1916133 1991 single work thesis
1 The Archaeology of Australian Colonial Newspapers Elizabeth Morrison , 1991 single work essay
— Appears in: Australasian Serials : Current Developments in Bibliography 1991; (p. 35-51)
1 The Marriage Market, a New Colonial Text Elizabeth Morrison , 1991 single work review
— Appears in: Overland , Autumn no. 122 1991; (p. 77-79)

— Review of Bengala, or, Some Time Ago Mary Theresa Vidal , 1860 single work novel
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