Harford, Lesbia (1891–1927)
Harford, Lesbia (1891–1927)
Australian poet. Name variations: Lesbia Keogh. Born Lesbia Venner Keogh, April 9, 1891, in Brighton, Melbourne, Australia; died July 5, 1927, in Melbourne; graduated in Arts and Law from University of Melbourne, 1916; m. Pat Harford (artist), 1920 (sep. 1921).
Lawyer and labor activist with the IWW, was born with a congenital heart defect and later suffered from TB; wrote novel The Invaluable Mystery; her poems published posthumously by Nettie Palmer as Poems (1941) and later as The Poems of Lesbia Harford (ed. Drusilla Modjeska and Marjorie Pizer, 1985).
See also (play) Earthly Paradise (1991).
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BORN: 1606, Coleshill, Hertfordshire, England
DIED: 1687, Beaconsfield, England
NATIONALITY: British
GENRE: Poetry
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