Birth, May 1921. Full edition given to Lesbia Harford’s work.
Birth, April 1922, “The psychological craze”.
Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 5 October 1927. “Torquay in holiday time” and “The love I look for”.
Nettie Palmer (ed.), The Poems of Lesbia Harford, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1941.
Percival Serle, An Australian Anthology, London, Collins, 1927.
George Mackaness, Poets of Australia, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1946, revised edition 1952 entitled An Anthology of Australian Verse.
H. M. Green, Modern Australian Poetry, Melbourne, Melbourne University Press, 1946 and 1952.
Marjorie Pizer, Freedom on the Wallaby, Sydney, Pinchgut Press, 1953.
Tom Inglis Moore, Poetry in Australia, vol. I, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1964.
Edward Kynaston, Australian Voices, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1974.
Rodney Hall, The Collins Book of Australian Poetry, Sydney, Collins, 1981.
Bulletin, 21 January 1942.
Southerly, April 1942, vol. 3, no. 1.
Sydney Morning Herald, 2 May 1942.
Elsie Cole, “Various verse by Australian women writers”, Corroboree, vol. I, no. 12, Sept. 1922. Abridged version of a paper given to the July meeting of the Australian Literature Society, 1922.
Nettie Palmer, review of Percival Serle, An Australian Anthology, in The Illustrated Tasmanian Mail, 19 October 1927, pp. 4–5.
Percival Serle, “Some women artists”, no date (before 1941), a lecture. Serle papers, State Library of Victoria.
Guido Baracchi, “Rebel Girl”. Lecture to the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Sydney, November 1941. National Library of Australia, Baracchi papers.
Muir Holburn, “Sang her life in clothing factories: story of an Australian poetess”, Australian Clothing Trades Union Journal, March 1945.
Frank Kellaway, “Lesbia Harford”, Melbourne University Magazine, 1947.
H. M. Green, A History of Australian Literature, vol. 1, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1961, pp. 951–954.
Marjorie Pizer, “Lesbia Harford: Forgotten Poet”, Mabel no. 4, June 1976.
Catharine Cuthbert, “Lesbia Harford and Marie Pitt: Forgotten Poets”, Hecate, vol. VIII, no. 1, 1982.
Lesley Parsons, “The Quest for Lesbia Harford”, B.A. thesis, Department of History, Melbourne University, 1976.