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Dame Edna Everage Dame Edna Everage i(A1572 works by)
Writing name for: Barry Humphries
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1 My Loyal Subjects and Possums! A Seasonal Message from President Edna Dame Edna Everage , 2008 single work prose satire
— Appears in: The Best Australian Humorous Writing 2008; (p. 33-35)
2 13 y separately published work icon My Gorgeous Life : An Adventure Dame Edna Everage , Melbourne London : Macmillan , 1989 Z268813 1989 single work autobiography humour

'Dame Edna Everage - housewife, megastar, investigative journalist, social anthropologist, children's book illustrator, chanteuse, swami, monstre sacre, polymath, adviser to British royalty, grief counselor, spin doctor, and gifted woman in the world today. The seeds of stardom were planted in Melbourne, Australia when her career as a performing artiste was strictly a cult following. In the 1960's, she did a series of one-woman shows and occasional stage and TV appearances in England with Barry Humphries. She spends her time visiting world leaders and jet-setting between her homes in Malibu, London, Sydney, and Switzerland. Her hobbies are having afternoon tea with Stephen Hwking and doing compassionate photography.'

'Dame Edna Everage is the creation of and played by Barry Humphries.' (Source: Goodreads website)

1 It's Going to be Your Year Possums Dame Edna Everage , 1981 single work prose humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 January vol. 101 no. 5247 1981; (p. 54)
1 y separately published work icon The Sound of Edna : Dame Edna's Family Songbook Dame Edna Everage , Nick Rowley (composer), Stanley Myers (composer), London : Chappell & Co. , 1979 Z1043710 1979 single work lyric/song
1 Dame Edna's Message to the Women of Australia i "I have loved Australia all my lfe", Dame Edna Everage , 1977 single work poetry humour
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 5 February vol. 99 no. 5043 1977; (p. 54)
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