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Dorothy Hewett: 1923-2002. Playwright, Poet, Novelist

The poet , novelist and playwright, Dorothy Hewett was born in Wickepin on 21 May 1923 ; died 25 August, 2002. A Western Australian who lived for many years in the Blue Mountains, Hewett died at Springwood Hospital from breast cancer.

Plays: This Old Man Comes Rolling Home (1967); Mrs Porter and the Angel; The Chapel Perilous Or, The Perilous Adventures Of Sally Banner (Currency Press,1972);Bon-bons and Roses for Dolly (1972);The Tatty Hollow Story (1974) The Man From Mukinupin (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1979); The knight of the long knives; Fields of Heaven; ;Susannah's Dreaming; The Golden Oldies (1976) [Currency , 1981]; The Raising of Pete Marsh (1988); Nowhere (Currency, 2001) and radio play Collected Plays (Currency Press, 1992)

Plays for children: The Golden Valley and Song Of The Seals

Edited: Sandgropers : a Western Australian anthology
(University of Western Australia Press, for the Fellowship of Australian Writers, W.A. Section, [1973])

Memoirs: Wild Card

Stories: Baker's Dozen; Australians have a word for it : short stories from down under [includes stories by Dorothy Hewett and Katharine Susannah Prichard], edited by Gertrude Gelbin. (Berlin : Seven Seas Publishers, 1964)

Novels: Bobbin Up (1959); Neap Tide (Penguin, 1999); The Toucher (Ringwood, VIC : McPhee Gribble, 1993)

Books of Poems :What about the people! with Merv Lilley.
( [Brisbane] : National Council of the Realist Writers Groups, [196-);Hidden journey. (Newnham (Tas.) : Wattle Grove P., 1967); Late night bulletin ; illustrations by O. Novotny, W. Guy, and R. Hennequel. (Newnham, Tasmania : Wattle Grove Press, 1968); Rapunzel in Suburbia (Prism, 1975);Greenhouse [drawings by Hilary Burns]. (Sydney : Big-Smoke Books, 1979.); Alice in Wormland (Paddington, N.S.W : Paper Bark Press, c1987);Selected poems [editor: Edna Longley].
(Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1991); Peninsula (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1994); Collected Poems 1940-1995 (Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1995);
Dorothy Hewett:Collected Poems; Wheatlands; Halfway Up the Mountain;

Playwright Dorothy Hewett dies...

AAP News

Farewell to writer Dorothy Hewett
The Age
Playwright Dorothy Hewett dies, aged 79
Ninemsn

Hewett buried - God not invited

Sydney Morning Herald

Australian writer Dorothy Hewett dies, aged 7..
ABC News

Grande dame revelled in saintly epithet
Sydney Morning Herald

An unbridled rage to live

Sydney Morning Herald

 
 
Death of playwright
Penrith Star
 
Dorothy Hewett Tribute from Australia Council
Overview of Creative Writing Unit
Steve Evans
Lecture Canberra University
Dorothy Hewett interviewed  
interviewed by Nicole Moore

Jacket # 9

"I was a rebel in word and deed":
Dorothy Hewitt's The Chapel Perilous and Contemporary Australian Feminist Writing
Australian and New Zealand Studies in Canada 10 (1993)

Thylazine: Australian Poets Directory H

What The Age Wouldn’t Print
By Ian Syson
Workers Online : Review : 1999 - Issue 37

Notes in Search of a Location for Between The Waves of Feminism
Outskirts Online Journal

On Dorothy Hewett
John Kinsella
Also available Dorothy Hewett
OZlit Editorial

Dorothy Hewett
Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Censorship, citizenship and democracy:
the regulation of literature, c. 1930 - 1960

Patricia Holt ABC Stories of Democracy

 

   

Why Hewett the Stalinist will be forgiven

Sydney Morning Herald

A Romantic for all seasons? Dorothy Hewett

Bruce Bennett

Life Writing and the Generations Conference abstract paper

Nowhere Playbox Review play

Dorothy Hewett
Vulgar Press Working Class Publishing: Authors

The Critical Reception of Bobbin Up
Vulgar Press Working Class Publishing: Study Guide

Dorothy Hewett, The Toucher, McPhee Gribble, 1993
Span number 37 Yorga Wangi: reviews

The New Wave of Australian Drama
Dorothy Hewett, Nimrod, Currency
Delyse Ryan

Sense and Censorship:
Commentaries on Censorship Violence in Australia

Michael Pollak
Reed Books 1990
Review by Danny Yee

Acknowledgement Practice and Plagiarism
University of Wollongong

using Sense and Censorship and Dorothy Hewett as an example

Two Poems
Dorothy Hewett
"Convertible"
"Exodus"
Poetry Society UK

"Early one morning"
Australian Issue
Atlanta Review

Weevils in the Flour
Union Songs
Digital Muse

Dorothy Hewett - three poems  "Nullabor Tea Party" (1929)
"Digging It In"
"To the Literary Ladies"
Jacket 12

Dorothy Hewett
Mind, Body Spirit
Books available

Papers of Cheryl Creatrix (1948- )
National Library

 

 
 
 
 

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