Elizabeth Webby AM is Emeritus Professor of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney. Her publications include Early Australian Poetry (Hale & Iremonger, 1982), Colonial Voices (UQP, 1989), Modern Australian Plays (Sydney University Press, 1990), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2000) and, as joint editor, Happy Endings (Allen & Unwin, 1987), Goodbye to Romance (Allen & Unwin, 1989), The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (Penguin, 1993) and The Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature (Allen & Unwin, 2009).