David Syme

Man of the Age

Elizabeth Morrison

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Monash University Publishing
15 August 2014

Biography: general; Media, information & communication industries; Press & journalism

From Victorias goldrush of the 1850s to Melbournes boom of the 1880s and bust-to-recovery of the 1890s, newspapers dominated the Australian publishing scene. Uniquely they provided local, intercolonial and international news, magazine content from the popular to the intellectual, and the latest literature, especially novels in serial instalments. By the 1870s the Melbourne Age dominated the journalistic stage. In the 1880s its circulation was far in excess of any other daily throughout all British colonial possessions and its proprietor, the driven, talented immigrant 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. Making use of family and business records and the massive nineteenth-century newspaper archive now becoming accessible through digitisation and searching via Trove, this biography of a powerful man of many parts seeks to go behind the legend and round out the story of his life primarily as press baron but also as theorist and author, financier, farmer, property developer and, not least, family man.

By: Elizabeth Morrison
Imprint: Monash University Publishing
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
ISBN: 9781922235572
ISBN 10: 1922235571
Pages: 435
Publication Date: 15 August 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.