Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Janet Frame
Standard Name: Frame, Janet
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| Literary responses | Leonora Carrington | In her 2017 assessment Marina Warner
likens the text, as a testament to the horrors of psychosis and convulsive drug therapy that is split between visionary illumination and profound psychological distress, to such writing as... |
| Textual Features | Shena Mackay | The stories here deal with all kinds of complexity and nuance in the sisterly relationship. The collection ends, as the introduction begins, with Christina Rossetti
's Goblin Market. The nineteenth century is further represented... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Ngaio Marsh | NM
clearly establishes her sense of the importance of the arts in national life and identity. She vividly evokes the situation of the early settlers in New Zealand as interlopers, white Victorians segregated from... |
Timeline
1951: New Zealander Janet Frame published her first...
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1951
New Zealander Janet Frame
published her first book (The Lagoon and Other Stories) as a patient at Seacliff Psychiatric Hospital
: her emotional breakdown in 1947 had been mis-diagnosed as schizophrenia.
1961: Janet Frame's novel Faces in the Water was...
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1961
Janet Frame
's novel Faces in the Water was published in New Zealand and the USA. British publication followed early the next year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
1 October 1985: New Zealander Janet Frame issued the last...
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1 October 1985
New Zealander Janet Frame
issued the last of three volumes of autobiography, The Envoy from Mirror City; the first came out in 1982. These books finally spread her fame and quashed her reputation as...
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