Vale Elizabeth Webby

Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby, an academic, mentor, teacher and author, has died.

Rochford Street Review writes: 

‘Rochford Street Review was saddened to learn of the death of Emeritus Professor Elizabeth Webby over the weekend. Tributes to her over the past 24 hours have focused on her role as a mentor and teacher and in these roles she has had a profound impact on Australian literature over the last 40-odd years. But she was also a major literary scholar whose works as author and editor include Early Australian Poetry (1982), Colonial Voices (1989), Modern Australian Plays (1990), The Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature (2000) and, as joint editor, Happy Endings (1987), Goodbye to Romance (1989), The Penguin Book of Australian Ballads (1993), Australian Feminism: A companion (1998), and the Academy Edition of Rolf Boldrewood’s Robbery Under Arms (2006).

‘Rochford Street Review offers its condolences to Emeritus Professor Webby’s family and many friends in the wider Australian literary community.’

A celebration of Webby’s life will take place on Saturday 19 August. See the Rochford Street Review website here for details.

Picture credit: Diane Macdonald.

Category: Obituaries