Alexander, Alison

Dr Alison Alexander is a seventh - generation Australian' with convict ancestors in the first' second and third fleet. She has worked as a freelance historian and as a lecturer and tutor in history at the University of Tasmania. Alison is editor of the Companion to Tasmanian History and has written seventeen commissioned histories of Tasmanian institutions. She has also written biographies of authors Mary Grant Bruce and Marie Bjelke - Petersen' and a combined biography of governors' wives and mistresses in early Van Diemen's Land.