Elizabeth Webby AM FAHA is Professor Emerita of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, where she taught from 1974-2007. She has published widely on Australian literature, with an emphasis on writing from the 19th century, and work by women. From 1988-1999 she was editor of the literary journal Southerly, and from 1999-2004 a judge of the Miles Franklin Award. She was a contributing editor, responsible for the 19th-century material, of the Macquarie PEN anthology of Australian literature (2009) and led the research project which created the Australian Poetry Library website in association with the Copyright Agency Ltd.