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Republished for a new generation of readers, this extraordinary autobiography of one of Australia's most celebrated female writers, Dorothy Hewett, traces the personal and political metamorphoses of her first 35 years. After university life, 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 husband and moved to Redfern, Sydney with her lover, a boilermaker. Hers was a life of extremes - the pleasures and purgatories of a woman who has tackled everything placed in her path wit

Authors, Australian --- Hewett, Dorothy. --- Lilley, Dorothy --- יואיט, דורותי

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"I need to be a writer," Ruth Park told her future husband, D'Arcy Niland, on the eve of their marriage. She was not the only one. At a time when women were considered incapable of being "real" artists, a number of precocious girls in Australian cities were weighing their chances and laying their plans. "A Free Flame" explores the lives of four such women, Gwen Harwood, Dorothy Hewett, Christina Stead, and Ruth Park, each of whom went on to become a notable Australian writer. They were very different women from very different backgrounds, but they shared a sense of urgency around their vocation -- their 'need' to be a writer -- that would not let them rest. Weaving biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, this book looks at the ways in which these women laid siege to the artist's identity, and ultimately remade it in their own image.

Women authors, Australian --- Femmes écrivains australiennes --- Harwood, Gwen, --- Hewett, Dorothy, --- Stead, Christina, --- Park, Ruth, --- Critique et interprétation.