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Notes
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Epigraph: The past! The dark, unfathom'd retrospect! The teeming gulf! The sleepers and the shadows! Walt Whitman
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Introduction: The Catherine who gives this play its title was an actual historical figure about whom very little is known. She was born, probably in 1769, on the Fitzwilliam estates in Staffordshire where she grew up and was given the kind of education which would fit her to become a lady's maid, was convicted at the Staffordshire Assizes of petty theft and sentenced to seven years' transportation to the new colony at Botany Bay....Mary Lord. (pp.1-2).
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Works about this Work
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The Catherine Wheel: Travel, Exile and the (Post) Colonial Woman
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 53 no. 2 1993; (p. 58-77) -
Telling it in Multiple Layers: An Interview with Jill Shearer
Helen Gilbert
(interviewer),
1992
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 21 1992; (p. 138-153)
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Telling it in Multiple Layers: An Interview with Jill Shearer
Helen Gilbert
(interviewer),
1992
single work
interview
— Appears in: Australasian Drama Studies , October no. 21 1992; (p. 138-153) -
The Catherine Wheel: Travel, Exile and the (Post) Colonial Woman
1993
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , June vol. 53 no. 2 1993; (p. 58-77)
Awards
- 1976 winner The Alexandera Theatre Playwriting Competition — Special Award
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