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.Daisy Bates in the desert. London, Secker & Warburg, 1994.
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.Burke & Wills: from Melbourne to myth. Balmain, N.S.W., David Ell Press, 1991.
.Bushman and bookworm: letters of Joseph Furphy edited by John Barnes and Lois Hoffmann. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995.
Pounds and pedigrees: the upper class in Victoria 1850–80. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1991.
.Dear Sun: the letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed edited by Janine Burke. Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia, 1995.
Documents on women in modern Australia edited by Katie Holmes and Marilyn Lake. St Leonards, N.S.W., Allen & Unwin, 1995.
The winters on the Wannon. Warrnambool, Vic., Deakin University Press, c.1991.
.A face in the glass: the journal and life of Annie Baxter Dawbin. Port Melbourne, William Heinemann Australia, 1992.
.Redmond Barry: an Anglo-Irish Australian. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 1995.
.Gold seeking: Victoria and California in the 1850s. St. Leonards, N.S.W., Allen & Unwin, 1994.
.Hunters and collectors: the antiquarian imagination in Australia. Cambridge; Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
.The Henty journals: a record of farming, whaling and shipping at Portland Bay, 1834–1839 edited by Lynnette Peel. Carlton, Vic., Miegunyah Press in association with the State Library of Victoria, 1996.
Spaces in her day: Australian women's diaries of the 1920s and 1930s. St. Leonards, N.S.W., Allen & Unwin, 1995.
.Damn you, John Christie!: the public life of Australia's Sherlock Holmes. Melbourne, State Library of Victoria, 1993.
.Victoria's colonial governors, 1839–1900. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1993.
. , and .A colonial liberalism: the lost world of three Victorian visionaries. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1991.
.The two lives of Joseph Docker. Richmond, Vic., Spectrum Publications, 1994.
Tom Roberts. Sydney, Macmillan, 1996.
.Australia's first Fabians: middle class radicals, labour activists and the early labour movement. Cambridge; Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1993.
.Georgiana: a biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer with a catalogue of plates by Caroline Clemente. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1994.
.No privacy for writing: shipboard diaries 1852–1879 edited by Andrew Hassam. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 1995.
More than just gumtrees: a personal, social and artistic history of the Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors. Melbourne, Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors in association with Dawn Revival Press, 1993.
.Duty free: Australian women abroad. Melbourne, Oxford University Press, 1995.
.A decent set of girls: the Irish famine orphans of the Thomas Arbuthnot 1849–1850. Yass, N.S.W., Yass Heritage Project, 1996.
.The Hoddle years: surveying in Victoria, 1836–1853. Canberra, Institution of Surveyors, Australia, 1995.
.Robin Boyd; a life. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press, 1995.
.A history of the Port Phillip District: Victoria before separation. Carlton, Vic., Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1996.
Single mothers and their children: disposal, punishment and survival in Australia. Cambridge; Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1995.
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