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The slender, wiry lyrics of Lesbia Harford

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November 2014, no. 366

Collected Poems: Lesbia Harford edited by Oliver Dennis

UWA Publishing, $29.99 pb, 136 pp

The slender, wiry lyrics of Lesbia Harford

by
November 2014, no. 366

In her short life (1891–1927), Lesbia Harford wrote hundreds of poems and a novel, took a law degree at the University of Melbourne, had love affairs with both women and men, worked as a machinist in clothing factories, and was active in the anti-conscription movement during World War I and the International Workers of the World (‘the Wobblies’). She was the quintessential modern woman of the early twentieth century.

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