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Note: with MA students from the School of English, Media and Performing Arts, University of New South Wales Note: With illustrations by the author.
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... 2009 The Gipsy Dancer and Early Poems
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Dorothy Hewett, renowned Australian playwright and poet, grew up on a huge wheat and sheep farm in Western Australia. Her rural surroundings nurtured a rich imaginative life, recorded in poetry and in her first play The Gipsy Dancer. These previously unpublished works reveal her early dramatic flair and her youthful commitment to the world of words, with a subject matter surprisingly different from much of her later writing. (Publisher's blurb)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Juvenilia Press , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction : Dorothy Hewett's Early Writings, Christine Alexander , single work biography (p. xiii-xl)
Dorothy Hewett the Young Playwright, Jeffrey Dawson , single work biography (p. xli-xlix)
The Gipsy Dancer : A Play, Dorothy Hewett , single work drama (p. 2-17)
Gipsy Dreamsi"When I am so quietly sleeping", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 2-3)
The Charm of the Woodlandsi"It is made from glittering stardust", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 19)
Fairies in the Gardeni"Fairies in the garden dancing everywhere,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 19)
Fairy Hammocksi"See the fairy hammocks swinging in the sky,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 20)
Lullabyi"Sleepy bye, sleepy bye.", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 21)
Shadowsi"When I am tucked in bed on nights,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 22)
Dreamingi"I'm sitting up here in the old gum tree,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 24-26)
Before We Begin...i"Little black BILLAI, BAMBA from Broome,", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 29)
The Magic Mia-Miai"White-feller dream-children, in the fire", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 30)
Windyi"Sitting in the sand", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 31)
Windy's Songi"Black swans fly", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 32-33)
Piccaninniesi"Fat black babies", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 34-35)
Billaii"Over desert ranges", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 36-37)
Honey Joei"Outside the mia-mia", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 38-39)
Gold Miningi"The little stones sit", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 40-41)
Little Brown Bambai"Little Brown Bamba", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 42-43)
Windy's Stari"Windy has a white star", Dorothy Hewett , single work poetry (p. 44)
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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Juvenilia Press , 2009 .
      Extent: lix, 92 p.p.
      Description: ill. (some col.), facsims.
      Note/s:
      • Includes Notes on the Text pp.li-lix

      • Includes:

        • Explanatory Notes (pp. 66-67)
        • Explanatory Notes for Early Poems (pp. 68-77)
        • Appendices (pp. 78-88)
        • Works Cited and Consulted (pp. 89-91)
      ISBN: 9780733426827 (pbk.) 0733426824
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Works about this Work

The Wild Workshop : The Ghost of a Brontëan Childhood in the Life of Dorothy Hewett Lucy Dougan , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

An indelible part of the Brontë mythology is their symbiotic development as young artists in an isolated environment. Some time ago, Juliet Barker’s biographical scholarship on the culture at the parsonage and the Brontë siblings’ lives in Haworth has questioned that isolation in terms of the rich resources available to the Brontës siblings and a family culture that strongly encouraged their imaginative and artistic development. More recently, director Sally Wainwright’s TV movie To Walk Invisiblehas meticulously recreated the dynamic relationship between the Brontës’ childhood fantasy worlds and their adult writing, along with the strategic ways in which the three sisters built a professional path towards their lives as novelists directly through their sibling bonds. Wainwright’s interpretation of the sisters’ creative lives has gone some way in recovering both the weirdness and the ordinariness of the Brontës in it they seem closer (more graspable) than in any recreation of their lives encountered before.' (Introduction) 
'Right from the Beginning' Fiona Morrison , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 205-208)
— Review of The Gipsy Dancer and Early Poems Dorothy Hewett , 2009 selected work poetry
'Right from the Beginning' Fiona Morrison , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 70 no. 2 2010; (p. 205-208)
— Review of The Gipsy Dancer and Early Poems Dorothy Hewett , 2009 selected work poetry
The Wild Workshop : The Ghost of a Brontëan Childhood in the Life of Dorothy Hewett Lucy Dougan , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Cordite Poetry Review , 1 February no. 89 2019;

An indelible part of the Brontë mythology is their symbiotic development as young artists in an isolated environment. Some time ago, Juliet Barker’s biographical scholarship on the culture at the parsonage and the Brontë siblings’ lives in Haworth has questioned that isolation in terms of the rich resources available to the Brontës siblings and a family culture that strongly encouraged their imaginative and artistic development. More recently, director Sally Wainwright’s TV movie To Walk Invisiblehas meticulously recreated the dynamic relationship between the Brontës’ childhood fantasy worlds and their adult writing, along with the strategic ways in which the three sisters built a professional path towards their lives as novelists directly through their sibling bonds. Wainwright’s interpretation of the sisters’ creative lives has gone some way in recovering both the weirdness and the ordinariness of the Brontës in it they seem closer (more graspable) than in any recreation of their lives encountered before.' (Introduction) 
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