Dorothy Coade Hewett, (May 21, 1923 – August 25, 2002), was an Australian feminist poet, novelist, librettist, and playwright. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Australia, though she clashed on many occasions with the party's leadership. May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... August 25 is the 237th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (238th in leap years), with 128 days remaining. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... Feminism is a social theory and political movement primarily informed and motivated by the experience of women. ... The Communist Party of Australia was founded in 1920 and dissolved in 1991. ...

Early life

Hewett was born in Perth, and was brought up on a sheep and wheat farm near Wickepin, Western Australia. She was initially educated at home and through correspondence due to the isolated nature of her home. From the age of 12 she attended Perth College, which was run by Anglican nuns. 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 as an atheist, which she remained all her life, disregarded this information out of hand. Perth is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Western Australia, and is the fourth largest city in Australia, with a population of approximately 1. ... Species See text. ... Species T. boeoticum T. compactum T. dicoccoides T. dicoccon T. durum T. monococcum T. spelta T. sphaerococcum References:   ITIS 42236 2002-09-22 Wheat (Triticum spp. ... Wickepin is a townsite located 213 km south-east of Perth and 38 km east of Narrogin in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. ... Emblems: Floral - Kangaroo Paw (Anigozanthos manglesii); Mammal - Numbat (Myrmecobius fasciatus); Bird - Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) Motto: none Slogan or Nickname: Wildflower State Other Australian states and territories Capital Perth Government Const. ... The term Anglican describes those people and churches following the religious traditions of the Church of England, especially following the Reformation. ... The Kingdom of Heaven (or the Kingdom of God, Hebrew מלכות השמים, malkhut hashamayim, Greek basileia tou theou) is a key concept detailed in all the three major monotheistic religions of the world — Islam, Judaism and Christianity. ... For information about the band, see Atheist (band). ...

In 1940 Hewett began studying English at the University of Western Australia. It was here that she joined the Communist party in 1942. Also during her time at UWA she won a major drama competition and a national poetry competition. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... English studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, India, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics... The University of Western Australia (UWA) is Western Australias oldest university, established in February 1911, and is the only West Australian university to be a member of the Group of Eight lobby group for tertiary institutions. ... 1942 (MCMXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1942 calendar). ...

Hewett married for the first time in 1944, to a communist lawyer, Lloyd Davies, whom she met at university. The marriage in ended in divorce in 1951. 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ...

The marriage had effectively ended in 1949 when Hewett ran off to Sydney to live with her lover, a boilermaker named Les Flood. She remained with him for nine years and bore him three sons: Joe, Michael, and Tom. During this time she wrote no poetry due to the family's constant struggle against poverty. However, the time she spent working in a clothing factory during this period did inform some of her most famous works. 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia with a metropolitan area population of over 4. ... A boilermaker, also known as a depth charge, is a cocktail consisting of a shot of whiskey, or vodka, and a glass of beer. ...

Career

Following the end of this relationship in 1958 Hewett returned to Perth to take up a teaching post in the English department at UWA.This move also inspired her to begin writing again. Jeannie {1958) was the first piece she completed following her enforced hiatus, Hewett later admitted to finding this a rejuvenating experience. 1958 (MCMLVIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Hewett published her first novel, Bobbin Up, in 1959. As the title suggests it was a semi-autobiographical work based on her time in Sydney, the novel was a very cathartic work for Hewett. The novel is widely regarded as a classic example of social realism. It was one of the few western works that was translated into Russian during the Soviet era. 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Catharsis is a sudden emotional breakdown or climax that constitutes overwhelming feelings of great pity, sorrow, laughter, or any extreme change in emotion that results in the renewal, restoration and revitalization for living. ... A Diego Rivera mural depicting factory workers in Detroit Social Realism is an artistic movement, expressed in the visual and other realist arts, which depicts working class activities as heroic. ... State motto (Russian): Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь! (Transliterated: Proletarii vsekh stran, soedinyaytes!) (Translated: Workers of the world, unite!) Capital Moscow Official language None; Russian (de facto) Government Federation of Soviet republics Area  - Total  - % water 1st before collapse 22,402,200 km² Approx. ...

In 1960 Hewett married again, this time to writer Merv Lilley, the marriage would last until the end of her life, and they had two daughters, Kate and Rose. The couple published a collection of poetry together in 1961 entitled What About the People!. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1961 calendar). ...

By 1967 Hewitt was starting to get disillusioned with communist politics, as was evidenced by the collection The Hidden Journey which was published in that year. Although she would remain on the left for her whole life, she had little time for the petty bickering and infighting that effectively paralysed communist politics. 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Things came to a head on August 20, 1968 when the Red Army brutally suppressed the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia. These events, coupled with her pre-existing disillusionment with the cause, forced Hewett to renounce her membership of the Communist party. August 20 is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... The short forms Red Army and RKKA refer to the Workers and Peasants Red Army, (in Russian: Рабоче-Крестьянская Красная Армия - Raboche-Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya), the armed forces first organized by the Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War in 1918. ... People in a café watch Soviet tanks roll past The Prague Spring (Czech: Pražské jaro, Slovak: Pražská jar, Russian: пражская весна) was a period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia starting January 5, 1968 when Alexander Dubček came to power, and running until August 20 of that year when the...

Hewett had inherited property and had a large house in South Perth. She encouraged and constructively criticised the work of young poets and her house at this time became a meeting-place for many who later achieved success, such as Rod Moran and Lee Knowles. This was not a political group, but was united by a common interest in poetry. She had many friends of different political persuasions, such as the anti-communist intellectual and writer Professor Patrick O'Brien.

In 1973 Hewett was awarded one of the first Fellowships by the newly formed Australia Council. The organisation granted her several fellowships, and later awarded her a lifetime emeritus fellowship grant. Hewett returned to Sydney that year with the hope that this move would further her career as a playwright. During her life she wrote 15 plays, the most famous of which are: This Old Man Came Rolling Home (1976) (this play was based on her experiences working in the clothes factory), The Chapel Perilous (1972), and The Golden Oldies (1981). 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Australia Council for the Arts (commonly called the Australia Council) is the Australian Governments arts council. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

She published the first volume of her autobiography, The Wild Card, in 1990. The book is primarily centered around her lifelong quest for sexual freedom and the negative responses she received from those around her: whether it was the inhabitants of provincial Western Australia, the members of the Communist party, or bourgeois Perth society. Two years after this she published her second novel, The Toucher. This article is about the year. ...

In 1990 a painting of Dorothy Hewett by artist Geoffrey Proud won the Archibald Prize, Australia's most famous portrait prize. Geoffrey Proud (1946- ) born in Adelaide, Australian artist who won the Archibald Prize in 1990 with a portrait of Dorothy Hewett, and the Sulman Prize in 1976 with Untitled Jane. ... Marcus Willss winning painting in 2006, The Paul Juraszek Monolith, was based on this print by an earlier Marcus, Marcus Gheeraerts The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize, and is the most prominent of all arts prizes, in Australia. ...

Later years

As she got older Hewett began to experience a number of physical problems, most notably osteoarthritis. Having always been a free-spirit Hewett found dependence and confinement very difficult to cope with. As she lost the ability to drive, and eventually walk, she relied on her writing and her imagination to transport her to other places. Osteoarthritis (OA, also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease, and sometimes referred to as arthrosis or osteoarthrosis or in more colloquial terms wear and tear), is a condition in which low-grade inflammation results in pain in the joints, caused by wearing of the cartilage that covers and...

In the 1984 video Rapunzel in Suburbia she had confessed that her terror of dying, a large part of this was because she felt she still had so much work inside of her still to write. However, as she got older she began to become more obsessed with these thoughts, and would often have nightmares about the nothingness after death. 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

At the time of her death, from breast cancer, she was working on the second volume of her autobiography The Empty Room. Breast cancer is cancer of breast tissue. ...

Reference

• Hewett, Dorothy (1990). Wild Card: an autobiography, 1923-1958. London, Virago, ISBN 1-85381-143-2.