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  Farewell to writer Dorothy Hewett - theage.com.au
Dorothy Hewett, the "grande dame of Australian literature", enjoyed being known as "patron saint" of a writers' centre in her beloved Blue Mountains.
Hewett grew up on a wheat farm at Wickepin in WA and was educated by correspondence before attending Perth College and the University of Western Australia, where she later taught English in the 1950s and 1960s.
Hewett is survived by her husband Merv Lilley, their children, Kate and Rose and, from her marriage to the late Les Flood, three sons, Joe, Michael and Tom.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/08/25/1030053009913.html   (475 words)

  
 Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett was a country bred, Western Australian girl who grew into one of Australia’s most well known poets, playwrights and novelists, as well as being a feminist who fought for the little man, and woman.
Hewett believes that writers like her have their ears tuned to hear bizarre things, and take note of them even though many of these things are not included into her works to date.
Hewett dislikes the publishing industry being largely consumed by multinational corporations as this is reducing the markets available to writers and is likely to keep these markets conservative in turn.
www.wordconstructions.com /hewett.htm   (1633 words)

  
 Dorothy Hewett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hewett was born in Perth, and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm near Wickepin, Western Australia.
Hewett later recalled that the nuns' primary task was to make clear to the students that they would never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Hewett married for the first time in 1944, to a communist lawyer, Lloyd Davies, whom she met at university.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dorothy_Hewett   (946 words)

  
 dorothy hewett
Dorothy Hewett was, at one stage of her career, given a story wheel, like a colour wheel, to "learn" the secret of narrative.
Hewett was an uneasy comrade for Communists and feminists.
Dorothy Hewett, who has died aged 79, was a writer who emerged from Wild Card, her autobiography, as a kind of untamed earth mother with total recall.
www.melissahardie.com /dch.html   (5374 words)

  
 wcw lecture nine
Hewett was writing during a period of unstable gender relations (though gender relations are of course never truly stable) but before the arrival of modern feminism, commonly known as ‘second-wave' feminism because of an earlier wave in the late nineteenth century.
Hewett reveals very effectively how the unique needs and desires of her characters, the way they live, what they consume, how they interact, the limitations they experience, are all factors influenced, fundamentally, by the conditions of their working lives.
Hewett challenges the view that women are powerless victims of patriarchy, and moves toward the espousal of a feminist politics that avoids opposing the traditional rationalism of patriarchy on its own terms.
www.staff.vu.edu.au /syson/301609.html   (5770 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Obituaries | Obituary: Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett, who has died from breast cancer aged 79, was a prize-winning Australian poet, playwright, novelist, autobiographer and librettist.
Hewett was born in Perth, and raised on an isolated wheat and sheep farm near Wickepin in the Western Australian wheat belt.
Hewett first arrived in Sydney in 1949, and moved back to the city in 1970 to further her career as a playwright.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,786174,00.html   (722 words)

  
 Jacket # 9 - Dorothy Hewett in conversation with Nicole Moore
Dorothy Hewett (21 May 1923–25 August 2002) was raised on her father’s remote wheat farm in Western Australia.
Dorothy Hewett died peacefully in her sleep in August 2002, after a battle with breast cancer.
Dorothy Hewett: That was part of it, and the other part of it of course was children, domesticity and living with somebody who had no sympathy, really, with what I was trying to do.
jacketmagazine.com /09/moor-iv-hewe.html   (5504 words)

  
 AWBR
And I see Dorothy lying on her tapestried chaise-longue in the back extension to the Faulconbridge house - that big, big, wooden-panelled, bookshelf-lined, stained-glass windowed cathedral-ceilinged room which is her outer world now, with its French doors and windows opening out on to the enclosed garden that her husband, balladist and writer Merv Lilley, planted.
Hewett can see the sea of time engulfing her own 'notes' and, as an intimation of mortality, the owl crops up on the last leaf of the collection 'in the ruins of Athena's temple/ hooting a warning'.
But Dorothy Hewett has got a lot left to say, and will say it, for after all - as her doctor recently told her - she's going to live for a long and painful old age.
emsah.uq.edu.au /awsr/recent/131/b.html   (2050 words)

  
 vulgar press working class publishing
Dorothy Hewett's life and literary career have made her a figure of particular critical interest to scholars and critics of different persuasions at different moments.
For a period of eight years Hewett was largely unable to write, partly because of work commitments and partly because of a felt responsibility to help the working-class political movement through direct, rather than mental or creative action.
Whatever role this novel played in Hewett's subsequent artistic development, its eschewal of a single heroine figure and its realistic depiction of the self-doubts of the central Communist character, Nell, undermine the easy identification of Hewett the romantic artist, with her work.
www.vulgar.com.au /hollier.html   (2289 words)

  
 A legacy lost on the land of the new - theage.com.au
At any rate, when I heard of Dorothy Hewett's death, I felt a rush of intense grief: that double act of private and public loss, since her leaving makes poorer not only those of us who loved her, but the nation.
But loving Dorothy is only part of the sorrow, since with her death dies the particular Australia that shared her life-dates, the Australia from 1923 until now, the particular way of viewing the country, the world, our society that sprang from that specific chronology and sensibility.
Dorothy experienced childhood in the West of the1920s, she experienced war as a 20-year-old, she experienced old age at the end of the millennium.
www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/09/01/1030508145749.html   (846 words)

  
 The Guardian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
From this trip came Dorothy's enduring ballad: Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod Walked by the wurlies when the wind was loud, And their voice was new as the fresh sap running And we keep on fighting and we keep on coming...
Dorothy was a founding member of the Union of Australian Women, mobilising the women's side of the Left-wing movement to become politically aware and active, making her, as she put it, "highly popular with their husbands".
Dorothy was her own woman, someone who cannot be fitted into any neat category or label.
www.cpa.org.au /garchve5/1107hewett.html   (654 words)

  
 PM - Dorothy Hewett passes away
But in reflection on her passing, maybe Dorothy Hewett wasn't as wild as society of her era would have us believe, just ahead of her time.
KATE TOZER: Dorothy Hewett's private life was thrust into the spotlight, when she was sued by her former husband, the lawyer and communist writer, Lloyd Davies.
KATE TOZER: Dorothy Hewett was an experimenter, she explored hidden truths, and along the way, broke all the rules.
www.abc.net.au /pm/stories/s659224.htm   (576 words)

  
 A Tribute to Dorothy Hewett
She died of breast cancer at Springwood Hospital at the age of 79, and is survived by her husband, her five children, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Dorothy Hewett was not happy growing old, as she told Max Cullen.
Frank Hardy said in his tribute to Dorothy Hewett that she had "at the core, a good core and a good heart...
sunday.ninemsn.com.au /sunday/feature_stories/article_1137.asp   (1036 words)

  
 Fast, Loose Beginnings
Dorothy thought I was dangerous; and back then, I probably was.
The book opens with Kinsella on a bender in search of Dorothy Hewett, and goes on to tell the story of his friendships and massive fallings-out through the highs and lows of addiction.
Here, in good company, are intimate portraits of Dorothy Hewett, Les Murray, American literary critic Harold Bloom and French philosopher Jacques Derrida, as they have never been seen before.
www.mup.unimelb.edu.au /catalogue/0-522-85254-8.html   (393 words)

  
 Hewett Family Genealogy Forum
Hewett in Alabama 1849 and Arkansas 1910 - Cynthia Hewitt 5/31/05
Re: Hewett in Alabama 1849 and Arkansas 1910 - Retta 7/25/05
Re: Hewett in Alabama 1849 and Arkansas 1910 - Retta 7/27/05
genforum.genealogy.com /hewett   (1564 words)

  
 Making Everlasting Memories, worldwide memorialization, establish a living family history   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Born in Brunswick County on June 17, 1949; he was the son of Nealie Kirby Hewett of Supply, and the late Wilbur C. Hewett.
Hewett was a member of the Ocean View Pentecostal Free Will Baptist Church.
Four Sisters, Brenda Clemmons and Dorothy Hewett of Supply; Carolyn Roberts of Ocean Isle Beach, and Sandra Lewis of Longwood and two children he thought of as his own, Amanda Caison Register, and Drew Strickland.
www.mem.com /display/biography.asp?ID=924940   (260 words)

  
 Dorothy Hewett (1923-2002): Playwright, Novelist, Poet   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The poet, novelist and playwright, Dorothy Hewett was born in Wickepin, Western Australia on 21 May 1923.
Dorothy Hewett - three poems "Nullabor Tea Party" (1929) "Digging It In" "To the Literary Ladies" Jacket 12
Rapunzel In Suburbia A Portrait of Dorothy Hewett.
www.trinity.wa.edu.au /plduffyrc/subjects/english/aust/hewett.htm   (614 words)

  
 Aussie Country Shopping Australian Poetry Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Four individual sections are interwoven to create a rich textual body of haunting, sharp and very sexual poetry for the senses.
"Dorothy Hewett has been writing poetry for over fifty-five years and is known throughout the world for the imagination, rhythm, vitality and power of her poems.
Collected Poems contains the great majority of poems that Dorothy has written during her lifetime and those that she considers to be worth preserving.
www.aussiecountryshopping.com.au /FremantlePoetry.asp   (1353 words)

  
 ALM Australian Literature Resources - Dorothy Hewett Contents page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Dorothy Hewett (1923–2002) was raised on her parents’ isolated wheat farm in Western Australia.
Dorothy Hewett and three of her children, l.
In the Survey Article section: Dorothy Hewett on the poetry of Robert Adamson and Michael Dransfield (1979)
www.austlit.com /a/hewett/index.html   (254 words)

  
 Why Hewett the Stalinist will be forgiven - smh.com.au
THE death of writer Dorothy Hewett at the weekend is a cause for regret, and the usual respectful obituaries are already flowing.
But most of them will have an additional dimension, on account of her long political history in the Communist Party and thereafter on the left of politics.
This is the question which is once again going to be posed during the obsequies for the veteran leftie Dorothy Hewett.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/08/26/1030053033783.html   (766 words)

  
 Hewett Private Investigations And Detectives, Employment Investigations, Traffic Accident Reconstruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
HO'IKE 1999 Welcome to the homepage of Frank Kawaikapuokalani Hewett, one of the most respected kumu hula (hula instructors), haku.
My community is for all the people that was born or raised on Hewett W. Just a way for everone to keep in touch.
Micheal Hewett creates systems for effective rule-based processing of large, complex bodies of rules and highly-interconnected knowledge.
www.99hosted.com /names9945.html   (217 words)

  
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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.
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.
www.alia.org.au /~rhorton/education/hewett.html   (293 words)

  
 Gary Shearston - Australian Broadside Notes 3
But this song - the words are by Dorothy Hewett, the melody by Mike Leyden - seems to have made a considerable impression on many young Australians in the folk-song audience.
ike Weevils in the Flour, the words of this song are by Dorothy Hewett, and they have been set to a melody by Chris Kempster.
Dorothy Hewitt lives in Perth, and her husband is a sailor who works in the ships that run around the coast from Perth to Darwin.
www.garyshearston.com /html/broadside_notes3.html   (751 words)

  
 Bobbin Up - Word Power
This document of urban working-class life in 1950s Australia is also a remarkably well crafted novel, combining the shifting narrative viewpoint pioneered by Modernism with a relentless realist mode.
'Dorothy Hewett's novel told us in the fifties that women could go a lot further in private and public spheres.
Dorothy Hewett was born in 1923 in Perth, Western Australia, was brought up on an isolated sheep and wheat farm, educated by correspondence and later at Perth College and the University of Western Australia.
www.word-power.co.uk /catalogue/0646370251   (735 words)

  
 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award
In this haunted and haunting story, Dorothy Hewett has written a novel about love and loss and the endless drift of the tides.
Dorothy Hewett was born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1923.
A well-known poet and dramatist, she has published thirteen plays, nine collections of poetry and three novels.
www.impacdublinaward.ie /2001/neaptide.htm   (247 words)

  
 Dorothy Hewett ; Alaice in Wormland, Dorothy Hoobler - The German American Family Album [The American Family Albums],
Dorothy Hewett ; Alaice in Wormland, Dorothy Hoobler - The German American Family Album [The American Family Albums],
Dorothy Hoobler - The German American Family Album [The American Family Albums]
Dorothy Hines Weaver Kay Wacker - Arizona A to Z
www.searchengineforbooks.com /65750_dorothy-hewett.html   (148 words)

  
 SPECIAL EVENT - A Tribute to Dorothy Hewett   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia and Currency Press, the Australian National Playwrights Conference will celebrate the life and work of an outstanding and inspirational playwright.
The audience will travel through the Australian galleries including works by Dorothy's artistic contemporaries and will be greeted by readings from her plays, compositions from her productions and anecdotes by artists and colleagues who worked closely with her.
The event will finish in the Small Theatre with a special champagne toast to a unique artist.
www.nga.gov.au /press/Hewett.htm   (100 words)

  
 Jacket 12 - Dorothy Hewett - three poems
Jacket 12 - Dorothy Hewett - three poems
It may not be stored, displayed, published, reproduced, or used for any other purpose
This material is copyright © Dorothy Hewett and Jacket magazine 2001
jacketmagazine.com /12/hewett-3.html   (194 words)

  
 Owl -- Essay at LiteratureClassics.com
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Dorothy Hewett's peom "Owl" uses many technioques of, alnguage and wqetiings wqithin it's stanzas.
AShe uses these techniques with ski=ll, so that agreat impact on the reader is made.
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