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The story is a fictionalised account of the relationship between Janet Frame and Frank Sargeson during her time living as a guest on his Takapuna property in 1955–56 – an era recounted in a number of works by Frame and her contemporaries and dramatised in Campion's film, An Angel at My Table (1990).
Janet Frame (born August 28, 1924, Dunedin, New Zealand—died January 29, 2004, Dunedin) was a leading New Zealand writer of novels, short fiction, and poetry. Her works were noted for their explorations of alienation and isolation.
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Janet Frame was born in Dunedin New Zealand in 1924 into a working class family. She was raised with a love of words, of literature and of nature, and her writing talent was recognised at an early age. However writing, especially for a woman, was not regarded as a 'real job'.
Janet Frame was born on 28 August 1924 at St Helen’s Hospital, Dunedin, to Lottie Clarice Godfrey (who had worked as a maid in the Picton home of Katherine Mansfield’s family, the Beauchamps), and her husband George Samuel Frame, a railway fireman.
30 de jan. de 2004 · Ms. Frame is survived by her sister, June Gordon. She returned to New Zealand in 1964 and wrote more novels, and three volumes of autobiography (Braziller, 1982, 1984, 1985).
22 de dez. de 2011 · Janet Frame’s private life. The Janet Frame of Pamela Gordon's memory is so far removed from the public myth of the shy, mad and reclusive writer, it's enough to make you laugh. or, in Pamela's case, feel frustrated and, at times, Author Now to Love. Print.
Frame, Janet (1924—)New Zealand writer who survived a childhood of poverty and misfortune and many years of incarceration in mental hospitals to write a wealth of novels, poems and short stories, as well as an autobiography.
