AustLit
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As can be read below, through AustLit's exhibition on the writer, Dorothy Blewett was an Australian novelist and playwright, working in the mid-twentieth century.
This exhibition aims to provide an overview of the performance history of her two plays, The First Joanna and Quiet Night.
Both of these plays were written towards the end of the Second World War and, until now, had become largely forgotten by the Australian public.
For more information on Blewett's plays and some of her other works, please visit the articles provided below.
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Dorothy Blewett ca. 1940s. Image provided by Blewett family.See full AustLit entryDorothy Blewett was born in Northcote in 1898 and was educated at the Methodist Ladies College. She was a novelist, playwright, short story writer, and active promoter of Australian literature through her work with International PEN, as a literary agent, and as secretary of the London-based, Society of Australian Writers during the 1950s. She was also secretary of the Melbourne branch of the PEN club
Blewett worked as a teacher as a young woman, then as a secretary and stenographer for a number of large companies in Melbourne, including at the Melbourne Head Office of Thomas Cook Travel where she worked from 1947 to 1951.
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Dorothy Blewett's Literary Works
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Cover of Perth Repertory Program, 1948The First Joanna : A Play in Three Acts -
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Cover of the RAAF publicationQuiet Night -
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Cover imagePattern for a Scandal -
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Bulletin headerThe River Flats of Jildee
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