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Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history. For decades, she was utterly forgotten, yet, when she died at 36, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia. Harford's writing looks both forwards...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harford, Lesbia, 1891-1927 (Autor)
Otros Autores: Dennis, Oliver (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Crawley, Western Australia : UWA Publishing, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Lesbia Harford (1891-1927) has occupied only a small place in Australian literary history. For decades, she was utterly forgotten, yet, when she died at 36, she left behind three notebooks containing some of the finest lyric poems ever written in Australia. Harford's writing looks both forwards and backwards, blending Pre-Raphaelite influences and plain-speaking with unusual subtlety. At the same time, she was bound inextricably to the period in which she lived. War in Europe, changing attitudes to religion, the suffrage movement, and widespread social upheaval all helped make her one of the f.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xxvii, 135 pages .)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1742586767
9781742586762