Elizabeth Morrison is a print culture historian with a particular interest in 19th-century Australia. 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 about the cultural role of the 19th-century Australian press through the serialising of new fiction in newspapers. She located significant original novels by noted author Ada Cambridge serialised in the Melbourne Age during 1888 and 1889, and edited them for re-publication in the Colonial Texts Series (A Woman's Friendship, 1988 and A Black Sheep, 2004). She has a PhD in history from Monash University, where she was a lecturer in librarianship and a research fellow in Australian studies. She now lives in Canberra.

Australia's great radical newspaperman ... his personal story revealed at last. -- Michael Cannon, author of The Land Boomers