It shouldn't have been a surprise when Queen Elizabeth II died at age 96 one year ago. But when the kingdom's second Elizabethan era drew to a close on 8 September, 2022, everyone suddenly seemed to be a little caught off guard.
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Giselle Bastin has a BA from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD from Flinders University. She is an Associate Professor in English at Flinders University. She researches the area of 'royalism', in particular biographies/biopics/histories about the British royal family. Bastin does regular media work (radio, television, print media) about the British royals. She also researches representations of the British aristocracy in literature and film.
Most of us, when pushed, can name a couple of teachers who had a profound influence on our lives. For me, Brian Matthews was one such teacher. I enrolled in English at Flinders University in 1972. On asking the enrolling officer whether anybody was ‘doing anything about Lawson’, I was directed to the office of Brian Matthews, a recent appointment to the English Department. By John Schumann
I remained a dogged believer in Father Christmas. That Christmas morning, armed with my fragile faith, curled up in bed in the darkness of my room to which the skylight in the passage just outside the door lent a ghostly luminescence, I sensed his immanence. By Brian Matthews
Brian Matthews, academic, award-winning columnist and biographer, and Australia's foremost scholar on Henry Lawson and his mother Louisa, died last Thursday 2 June following complications related to lymphoma, at the age of 86. Brian first wrote for Eureka Street in February, 2002 and continued to contribute his monthly column for 20 years. Brian Matthews