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The Poems of Lesbia Harford
ISBN: 9780207151576
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Publication date: 1-Jan-11
About the authors
Drusilla Modjeska was born in England and has lived in Australia since 1971. She is an historian and lecturer in the faculty of humanities at the NSW Institute of Technology, a feminist and the author of Exiles at Home.
Marjorie Pizer, poet, editor and psychotherapist was born and educated in Melbourne. She has published numerous collections of poetry, Selected Poems being her latest. She has also edited four collections of Australian poetry.
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Prior to 20 October 2019, the book has been downloaded Lesbia Harford, poet and feminist, died in 1927 at the age of thirty-six. In her lifetime she published only a few poems, and the small selection published in 1941 in a book edited by Nettie Palmer has been out of print for many years. Yet her work has appeared consistently in anthologies of Australian poetry since the 1920s, and her preoccupations - feminism and its relationship to socialism, the situation of working women, the conflict between love and independence - reflect issues that are still central to Australian feminism and writing today. times.
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