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Elsie Champion, a sister of feminist Vida Goldstein (q.v), enrolled at Melbourne University to study arts, but was called away to manage the Book Lovers' Library in 1896. Champion was to manage the library and bookshop until it closed in 1936. In 1898 she married Henry Hyde Champion (q.v.), who shared the management from that time.

Henry Champion died in 1928 and, after the Library went bankrupt in 1936, Elsie Champion was employed at the Collins Book Depot. She then worked for Robertson and Mullens for ten years. Champion died in 1953 at the age of 83. Her niece, Leslie Henderson (q.v.), who worked with her at the Book Lovers' Library, recorded reminiscences of Champion in The Goldstein Story (1973).