Lesbia Venner Harford was a woman who knew she’d die young but became a revolutionary all the same, who loved both women and men with a passion always overwhelming and often unwise, and who wrote exquisitely about the transformations of the modern age: what they meant and what might be done with them.
Barely read during her lifetime, she has been rediscovered and championed by writers of the highest order. Les Murray called her one of the nation’s greatest poets. Gerald Murnane credits her with changing the way he understood literature. Drusilla Modjeska deems her work “astonishing”.
