Dorothy Hewett

Dorothy Hewett was born on 21 May 1923 in Western Australia and grew up until 1935 on a sheep and wheat farm near Wickepin, taught by correspondence. A student in Perth, she joined the Communist Party, which she would leave in 1968 after the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Leaving for Sydney in 1949 with Les Flood, she lived in Redfern and worked in a spinning mill from 1950 to 1952. She married Merv Lilley in 1960, then wrote plays, several of which could not be staged in Perth for fear of lawsuits, and died on 25 August 2002 in Springwood.

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• TheatreThis Old Man Comes Rolling HomeDorothy Hewett · 1967Literature