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Russell Atkinson's biography of Ellen Nora Payne — the Westbury-born woodcarver who lived 97 years and left her work in churches, schools and institutions across Tasmania and beyond. The scope of her work was extraordinary — the altar and screens of St Andrew's Church at Westbury, WWI honour boards for the University of Tasmania and institutions across the state, 34 dower chests for family and friends, a commemorative medal for a blackwood screen at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley, the Royal Coat of Arms for the Tasmanian Parliament in 1939, and a vestry plaque for All Hallows-by-the-Tower in London completed when she was in her early nineties.