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y separately published work icon Wild Card [music] : The Dorothy Hewett Song Cycle : For Soprano, Cello and Piano single work   lyric/song  
Issue Details: First known date: 1991... 1991 Wild Card [music] : The Dorothy Hewett Song Cycle : For Soprano, Cello and Piano
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Notes

  • Composed 1991, with a song text comprising extracts from Dorothy Hewett's autobiography Wild Card.
  • Written at the request of Roger Woodward for the Sydney Spring Festival.

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y separately published work icon Wild Card : An Autobiography, 1923-1958 Dorothy Hewett , Ringwood : McPhee Gribble , 1990 Z453485 1990 single work autobiography 'In this acclaimed autobiography, Dorothy Hewett, renowned playwright and novelist, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first thirty-five years. A woman who challenged sexual and political conventions, she combines in Wild Card the passions of her life with her power as a writer, creating a classic of people, place and history.After university, several failed love affairs, an attempted suicide and a major poetry prize, Dorothy Hewett joined the Australian Communist Party in 1945. Four years later she left her first husband and moved to Sydney's Redfern with her lover, a boilermaker. Hers has been a life of extremes: the pleasures and purgatories of a woman who tackled everything placed in her path with a searing honesty, energy and intellect.' (Publication summary)
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