Janet Frame





Janet Frame

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born
August 28, 1924 in Dunedin, New Zealand

died
January 29, 2004

gender
female


About this author

The fate befalling the young woman who wanted "to be a poet" has been well documented. Desperately unhappy because of family tragedies and finding herself trapped in the wrong vocation (as a schoolteacher) her only escape appeared to be in submission to society's judgement of her as abnormal. She spent four and a half years out of eight years, incarcerated in mental hospitals. The story of her almost miraculous survival of the horrors and brutalising treatment in unenlightened institutions has become well known. She continued to write throughout her troubled years, and her first book (The Lagoon and Other Stories) won a prestigious literary prize, thus convincing her doctors not to carry out a planned lobotomy.

She returned to society, but n...more


Average rating: 4.02 · 2,131 ratings · 214 reviews · 37 distinct works
Owls Do Cry
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An Angel at My Table
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Faces In The Water
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Janet Frame: An Autobiograp...
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Scented Gardens for the Blind
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Towards Another Summer
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To the Is-land: An Autobiog...
3.92 of 5 stars 3.92 avg rating — 114 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
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The Carpathians
3.68 of 5 stars 3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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Living in the Maniototo
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions
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The Edge of the Alphabet
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions
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Janet Frame Autobiography (3 books)
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“I don't want to inhabit the human world under false pretenses.”
Janet Frame, Towards Another Summer

“Language, at least, may give up the secrets of life and death, leading us through the maze to the original Word as monster or angel, to the mournful place where we may meet Job and hear his cry, 'How long will you vex my soul and break me in pieces with words?”
Janet Frame

“So we went to bed, assaulted by sleep that fumed at us from medicine glasses, or was wielded from small sweet-coated tablets -- dainty bricks of dream wrapped in the silk stockings of oblivion.”
Janet Frame

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