When we think of ‘recoverable’ authors, those whose works have been underread or underappreciated, Janet Frame’s name might not quickly come to mind. The New Zealander whose life began on August 28, 1924, has hardly been lost to time. Janet Frame was prolific. Her work was heavily reviewed, critiqued, and lauded during her own lifetime; there have even been persistent rumors and refutations of her candidacy for the Nobel Prize in Literature. She continues to be widely considered the most famous and influential writer from her home country, alongside Katherine Mansfield. The author of twelve novels (one published posthumously) and two books of poetry (again, one published posthumously), Frame also wrote short stories, children’s fiction (a lone story about an indoor ant who has found himself out-of-doors), and a compelling three-volume autobiography, the contents of which have been mulled over for decades.

It is the obsessive reconstruction and analysis of Frame’s life that makes her, perhaps oddly, a candidate for reevaluation. Her autobiography fed off of and spurred a thread of literary criticism that endeavored, it appears, solely to extract Frame’s experiences, her “real life” from her fiction. Critics and scholars have attempted to determine the extent of both experience and imagination in her work, and it is this ultimately false and misleading dichotomy that has shaped the understanding of an author who deserves better.

Janet Frame’s life—particularly her early and adolescent years—is an absorbing story in its own right. She was the second daughter of five children, born to an intellectually creative mother with little outlet for her literary interests besides the occasional opportunity to write poems and ditties for her children and perhaps the local paper. Her father, a veteran of World War I, worked an itinerant life in the New Zealand railway industry. Frame’s early life was fraught with tragedy; her rebellious older sister Myrtle—who suffered from a heart defect—drowned when she was 16, and Frame was still quite young. Her brother, George, was diagnosed with epilepsy[i] and developed behavioral problems and a drinking habit to cope with the misunderstood affliction. Despite her family’s trials and frequent relocations, Frame’s childhood appears to have been, if not happy, then at least not lonely. By her own account, she stood out in school, but somewhat came to terms with her uniqueness. This despite an almost stifling awareness, expressed in her autobiography, of her own body—from the clothing that grew tighter over her developing breasts as she grew older, to the menstrual blood of which she was almost pathologically aware.

Her performance in secondary school was sufficient to allow her entry into Duendin Teachers’ College, where for the first time she would earn a salary and begin a bizarrely monkish life living with her aunt and ill uncle. Janet’s time was filled with books and what she would later see as ignorant misunderstandings of the world, made worse in turns by the conservative, restrictive attitude of the College’s administration and then by her sister Isabel’s early arrival to the college and the antics that ensued. Eventually, Frame took her first teaching post. Although she describes her time in the classroom positively, Frame spiraled into fits of depression and suicidal thinking due to the anxiety she experienced at the idea of being ‘assessed’ for her competency as a teacher. As a member of the teaching faculty, Frame continued to function as a socially detached child-adult, failing to integrate herself into adult society and break the veil of innocence and easiness she had to that point cultivated:

… I was forced to realize that suicide was my only escape. I had woven so carefully, with such close texture, my visible layer of ‘no trouble at all, a quiet student, always ready with a smile (if the decayed teeth could be hidden) always happy,' that even I could not break the thread of the material of my deceit. [ii]

This overwhelming anxiety marks the beginnings of Frame’s first emotional breakdown of 1945.[iii] It was these seeds of disconnect and alienation that were to define her behavior and her writing thereafter. Frame was admitted to the Seacliff Mental Hospital voluntarily, where she was first diagnosed with schizophrenia. In the subsequent weeks of evaluation and therapy, Frame continued her turbulent decline into the world of mental illness, a period that she would later analyze with a combination of awe and distress. Frame flitted in and out of institutions like Seacliff for eight years. Her experiences there,

in a world I’d never known among people whose existences I never thought possible, became for me a concentrated course in the horrors of insanity and the dwelling-place of those judged insane, separating me for ever from the former acceptable realities and assurances of everyday life.[iv]

Frame’s creative energies from this point forth seem to take as their center this moment of unselfreflective observation of the mad and incapacitated. For a girl whose existence had, in her own words, been defined by anxiety and confusion manifested as outward happiness and being ‘no trouble at all,’ the weeks among those who were unable to exercise the rational choice to be unobtrusive was shattering. It made real the possibility of deviance in a way her sister Isabel’s mild misbehavior and coming-of-age rebellion had not. Isabel’s death by drowning at 21, in the midst of Frame’s treatment and coping with her mental instability, is swathed in Frame’s autobiography with stark confusion, grief, and denial, so much that the traumatic moment, the “double lightning strike,” seems almost normal and passes quickly.[v]

Over the course of the next several years Frame’s physical body began to fall apart; her teeth rotted, she worked sporadically, lived in and out of mental hospitals, with her parents, at one point with her sister June and her husband. Frame makes stumbling, impulsive decisions; six years of her life pass in a few pages of her autobiography, compressed, confused. During a series of treatments using electroshock and insulin therapy, which Frame describes detachedly and philosophically, Frame continues to falter her way into literary publication. In 1951, Frame was scheduled to receive a lobotomy, an experimental procedure meant to normalize the behavior of mentally ill patients in the hospital where she was residing. As the procedure approached, she was visited by Dr. Blake Palmer, whose opinion she solicited about her upcoming operation. It was only through the doctor’s surprise, and his strong admonition that she should “stay as she is” “unchanged” that she learned her book of short stories The Lagoon, had won the Hulbert Church Award.

Nearly from this moment Frame embarked upon the literary career she had often dreamed of, and to a new phase of life. She is unable, however, to escape the haunting spectre of her past. A friend from the hospital, Nola, “who unfortunately had not won a prize, whose name did not appear in the newspaper,” underwent the procedure and fell victim to the “dehumanizing change” the operation wreaked.[vi] Inasmuch as Frame recognizes the danger her own difference brings to her, she bears Nola’s injury and death as a reminder of the potential consequences of aberrance. As if she needed additional admonitions towards outward normalcy (she speaks of how people constantly advise her to straighten her frizzed and unruly red hair, as if the disorder itself is a threat), this lucky dodging of that ultimately fatal experiment wrests her into the semblance of adulthood and independence.

From 1955 onward, Frame’s life is spattered with stints of writing, new literary and personal acquaintances, travel, and almost frenetic movement from residence to residence. Still haunted by anxiety and depression, she sought treatment in both the United States and the United Kingdom through traditional therapy and psychotherapy. She also used her novels as exploratory sojourns into strangeness, madness, alienation, and nonlinear thinking. She never married, and avoided her mother’s life, which she viewed as “awful”[vii] (with no small touch of disdain), and which served as a counterbalance and a push towards exceptionality, away from the slavish domesticity she observed in her primary female role model, but also away from intimate partner and mother-child relationships.

If Frame used her life as an exploration, manipulation, and reassessment of mental illnesses, of strange perspectives, and of othering situations, her critics and biographers have often taken up this thread and plundered its riches in the most pedantic of ways: diagnosis. The speculation around Frame’s mental illness is perhaps spurred by her diagnosis of schizophrenia, later rescinded by a “panel of psychiatrists.”[viii] In 2007, Sarah Abrahamson, a New Zealand rehabilitation physician, published an article in the New Zealand Medical Journal, contending that Frame was afflicted with a mild form of Autism, or perhaps Asperger syndrome.[ix] Douglas Martin’s article in the New York Times following Frame’s death perhaps most perfectly encapsulates the question so many have asked of the author’s body of work. He writes,

Ms. Frame created romantic visionaries—eccentrics, mad people epileptics—and pitted them against the repressive forces of a sterile, conformist society. Or maybe she was just reporting on her life. A continuing discussion among critics was whether her autobiographical work was mostly fiction or whether her fiction was mostly autobiographical. [my emphasis][x]

Equally, the otherwise even-handed Bruce Allen writes that “Frame wrote fiction crammed with autobiographical detail and infused with deeply personal feeling. The key to understanding her work is the mystery (no other word seems right) of her difficult life.”[xi] What Allen seems to miss here (though he admirably recovers his footing later on in the piece) is that Frame does not only infuse her fiction with autobiography. Rather, her fiction is the imaginative exploration—not exploitation—of a felt experience of madness, one that did not trap but rather freed the author. He is right to note that “Janet Frame’s fiction challenges the truism that communication and human connection are unqualified good things,” as her characters consistently encounter authority figures “who ‘communicate’ in order to influence and control.”[xii] Frame’s characters evade and elude the overbearing presence of conformist and dangerous authorities[xiii] by escaping to the imaginary, the disjointed. Eventually, Frame resorts even to the degeneration of sensible language into a jumble of letters (as in her novel The Edge of the Alphabet, Brazillier, 1965).

Alan Tinkler in his article, “Janet Frame,” does much to rehabilitate Frame’s literary output as a project rather than an outpouring of self or a blundering mélange of experience and “eccentric and unreadable” fiction.[xiv] Tinkler disputes Gina Mercer’s assessment of Frame as ‘other’, a haphazard political and ethical category. He is equally frustrated by the prolific criticism of Patrick Evans, who insists upon almost exclusive biographical criticism of Frame’s work. Instead, he proffers Judith Dell Panny’s argument, in which she chooses to analyze the experience of Frame’s readers, who are, in Panny’s judgment, allowed to “connect images and ideas and to draw individual conclusions,” subverting even the authority of Frame’s own voice in deference to the uniqueness of the human imagination.[xv] He also asserts that, while drawing upon experience, “Frame was aware that writing is a construction,” effectively shutting down the unreasonable attention that has been paid to Frame’s autobiographical voice.[xvi] He argues that she was not merely a ragdoll spewing forth her digested memories, but rather that she, in both her fiction and nonfiction, “participates without reservation in literary discourse, specifically high modernist discourse,” and that she “felt her creative project wholly justified and unabashedly situated” within that discourse.[xvii]

Tinkler asserts, quite accurately, that Frame empowers her readers when she asks them, through the constructed framework of her fiction, to “participate in the imaginative process.”[xviii] As her autobiographical description indicates, however, Frame also allowed herself to be empowered by the experience of maintaining a disordered fictional construction. Frame replays her life’s events, not out of exploitation, but experimentation. Her fiction is an experiment in which she holds particular kinds of madness still in her own mind for a moment and allows them in all their uniquely human disorder to take hold on the page. Frame’s intensely felt childhood anxiety about normalcy, her own body, and her obtrusiveness in the world was exploded after her experience in the psychiatric hospital where she encountered the truly mentally ill. Her coincidental disenchantment with authority and intimate experiences with both insanity and the insane propelled her into a fictional voice, and perhaps a life, where personhood and personal identity were themselves in flux.

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[i] This in an era when the disease was nearly uncontrollable and still viewed with a tinge of disconcerted superstition as a result of its sudden and frightening seizures, which were suspected not long ago of indicating demonic possession.

[ii] Janet Frame, Autobiography, p. 188

[iii] Frame had multiple mental breakdowns and institutionalizations that year and over the subsequent decade.

[iv] Frame, Autobiography, p. 193

[v] Frame, Autobiography, p. 207

[vi] Frame, Autobiography, p. 223

[vii] Frame, Autobiography, p. 261

[viii] Douglas Martin, “Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness”, New York Times, January 30, 2004.

[ix] “Janet Frame” Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Frame May 21, 2008

[x] Douglas Martin, “Janet Frame, 79, Writer Who Explored Madness”

[xi] Bruce Allen, “‘Divinest Sense’: The Life and Art of Janet Frame” Contemporary Literary Criticism 237, Jeffrey W. Hunter, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Thompson Gale, 2007.

[xii] Allen, “‘Divinest Sense’”

[xiii] Frame has a dim view of authority figures, which her nonfiction sketches of her mother, the doctors and nurses at the mental hospitals she stayed in, even the presidents of her teaching college in Duendin makes clear.

[xiv] Allen, “‘Divinest Sense’”

[xv] Alan Tinkler, “Janet Frame,” Review of Contemporary Fiction 24, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 89-124

[xvi] Tinkler, “Janet Frame”

[xvii] Tinkler, “Janet Frame”

[xviii] Tinkler, “Janet Frame.”

Extended Bibliography of Janet Frame

Works by Janet Frame

(Reviews are listed below each work)

Novels

• 1957. Owls Do Cry. Christchurch: Pegasus Press.

o Hall, David. Listener 36(929): 12; 31 May 1957.

o Duggan, Maurice. Here and Now 60: 29-30; Sept 1957.

o Mason, Bruce. Education 6(3): 64-6; Nov 1957.

o Rhodes, H. Winston. Landfall 44: 327-331; Dec 1957.

o British Book News p.387; July 1985.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.1295; 15 Nov 1985.

o Griffiths, George. Otago Daily Times p.21; 25 Aug 1990.

o Brown, Ruth. Landfall 44(3): 350-358; Sept 1990.

• 1961. Faces in the Water. Christchurch: Pegasus Press; New York: Braziller.

o Hall, David. Listener 45(1156): 35; 3 Nov 1961.

o NZ Monthly Review 2(19): 23-4; Dec 1961.

o Day, Paul. Landfall 16: 195-8; June 1962.

o Jackson, K. Fernfire 9: 22; Aug 1962.

o Pollak, S. Psychology Today 20: 70; May 1986.

• 1962. The Edge of the Alphabet. Christchurch: Pegasus Press.

o Hall, David. Listener 48(1224): 18; 8 Mar 1963.

o Crawford, Tom. Landfall 17: 192-5; June 1963.

• 1963. Scented Gardens for the Blind. London: WH Allen.

o Bertram, James. Listener 49(1247): 18; 16 Aug 1963.

o Leeming, Owen. Landfall 17: 386-9; Dec 1963.

o Stilwell, R. L. Books Abroad 39: 350; Summer 1965.

o New York Times Book Review 85: 41; 9 Nov 1980.

o Stratford, Stephen. Listener 103(2248): 94; 5 Mar 1983.

• 1965. The Adaptable Man. London: WH Allen.

o Time 86: 90; 6 Aug 1965.

o Sheed, W. New York Times Book Review 70: 4; 8 Aug 1965.

o Tracy, H. New Republic 153: 20; 11 Sept 1965.

o Manville, W. H. Book Week p.19; 3 Oct 1965.

o New Yorker 41: 233; 9 Oct 1965.

o Observer p.28; 17 Oct 1965.

o Hemmings, F. W. New Statesman 70: 613; 22 Oct 1965.

o Hall, David. Listener 53(1367): 19; 17 Dec 1965.

o Choice 2: 579; Nov 1965.

o Hall, J. Books and Bookmen 11: 31; Feb 1966.

o Joseph, M. K. Landfall 20: 92-5; Mar 1966.

o Graham, D. Journal of Commonwealth Literature 4: 148-50; Dec 1967.

o Evans, Patrick. Landfall 25: 448-55; Dec 1971.

o Michael Rogers. Library Journal 117(12): 132; Jul 1992

o New & Notable 10(3): 1-5; July 1993.

o Arnold, Sandra. Press Sup.p.10; 28 Aug 1993.

o Cooper, Ronda. Metro 146: 131-132; Aug 1993.

o Wilkins, Damien. Listener 140(2793): 52-53; 16 Oct 1993.

• 1966. A State of Siege. New York: Braziller.

o Kitching, J. Publishers Weekly 189: 80; 23 May 1966.

o Anderson, H. T. Best Sellers 26: 149; 15 July 1966.

o Newsweek 68: 98; 18 July 1966.

o Cook, B. National Observer 5: 21; 18 July 1966.

o Poore, C. New York Times 115: 35; 21 July 1966.

o Hall, David. Listener p.26-7; 21 July 1967

o Hungerford, E.B. Books Today 3: 4; 7 Aug 1966.

o Mann, C. W., jr. Library Journal 91: 3765; Aug 1966.

o National Observer 5: 17; 29 Aug 1966.

o Bell, M. New York Times Book Review 71: 5; 11 Sept 1966.

o Booklist 63: 156; 1 Oct 1966.

o Choice 4: 39; Mar 1967.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.364; 27 April 1967.

o Francis, A. Books and Bookmen 12: 25; June 1967.

o Rhodes, H. Winston. NZ Monthly Review 8(81): 25; Aug 1967.

o Taylor, M. A. Landfall 22: 331-5; Sept 1968.

o Malterre, M. Etudes Anglaises 25(2): 232-44; 1972.

o Danby, Dawn. And 2: 102-6; Feb 1984.

o Curry, Joan. Press Sup.p.10; 4 July 1992.

• 1968. The Rainbirds. London: WH Allen. (Published in the US with Frame's preferred original title, Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room. New York: Braziller, 1969)

o Nott, K. Observer p.30; 13 Oct 1968.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.1301; 21 Nov 1968.

o Bertram, James. Listener 1536: 20; 21 Mar 1969.

o Evans, Patrick. Landfall 23: 189-94; June 1969.

o New York Times 118: 33; 3 Feb 1969.

o Christian Science Monitor 61: 9; 8 Feb 1969.

o New York Times Book Review p.5; 9 Feb 1969.

o Library Journal 94: 778; 15 Feb 1969.

o New York Review of Books 12: 16; 27 Feb 1969.

o Best Sellers 28: 475; 1 Mar 1969.

o New Yorker 45: 146; 17 Mar 1969.

o Time 93: 99; 21 Mar 1969.

o Booklist 65: 942; 15 Apr 1969.

o Saturday Review 52: 41; 19 April 1969.

o Bookworld 3: 16; 27 April 1969.

o Choice 6: 1221; Nov 1969.

o Library Journal 94: 4584; 15 Dec 1969.

o Library Journal 94: 4623; 15 Dec 1969.

• 1970. Intensive Care. New York: Braziller.

o Publishers Weekly 197: 151; 23 Feb 1970.

o Hudson Review 23: 338; Summer 1970.

o Kirkus Reviews 38: 273; 1 Mar 1970.

o New York Times 119: 35; 23 April 1970.

o Library Journal 95: 1759; 1 May 1970.

o New York Times Book Review p.4; 3 May 1970.

o Bookworld 4: 8; 3 May 1970.

o Time 95: 88; 18 May 1970.

o America 122: 565; 23 May 1970.

o Booklist.66: 1194; 1 June 1970.

o National Observer 9: 21; 8 June 1970.

o Best Sellers 30: 119; 15 Jun 1970.

o Saturday Review 53: 29; 1 Aug 1970.

o Choice 7: 840; Sept 1970.

o McEldowney, Dennis. Listener 69(1678): 44; 10 Jan 1972.

o Evans, Patrick. Islands 1: 180-3; Summer 1972.

o Reid, I. Australian Book Review 11: 258; Autumn 1972.

• 1972. Daughter Buffalo. New York: Braziller.

o Kirkus Reviews 40: 639; 1 June 1972.

o Publishers Weekly 201: 59; 19 June 1972.

o Library Journal 97: 2642; Aug 1972.

o World 1: 71; 1 Aug 1972.

o New York Times Book Review p.3; 27 Aug 1972.

o Time 100: 75; 11 Sept 1972.

o New Yorker 48: 125; 30 Sept 1972.

o Best Sellers 32: 297; 1 Oct 1972.

o Booklist 69: 174; 15 Oct 1972.

o National Observer 11: 23; 28 Oct 1972.

o New York Times Book Review p.74; 3 Dec 1972.

o Observer p.34; 21 Jan 1973.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.85; 26 Jan 1973.

o McEldowney, Dennis. Listener 73(1749): 50; 21 May 1973.

o Wevers, Lydia. NZ Book World 1: 21; June 1973.

o Rhodes, H. Winston. Landfall 27: 159-62; June 1973.

o Edmond, Lauris. Islands 3: 335-40; Spring 1974.

o Flanagan, Mary. New Statesman & Society 3(90): 35; 2 Mar 1990

o Knox, Chris. Listener 128(2642): 102; 5 Nov 1990.

o Roger, Michael. Library Journal 117(12): 132; July 1992.

• 1979. Living in the Maniototo. New York: Braziller.

o Time 114: 81; 6 Aug 1979.

o New Yorker 55: 169; 17 Sept 1979.

o New York Times Book Review p.13; 16 Sept 1979.

o Wolfe, P. Pacific Quarterly 5: 259-60; April 1980.

o Wevers, Lydia. Listener 95(2106): 68-9; 24 May 1980.

o Theobald, G. PSA Journal 68(1): 16; Jan/Feb 1981.

o Uglow, J. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4084: 786; 10 July 1981.

o Gordon, A. NZ Woman's Weekly p.166; 10 Aug 1981.

o Ranstead, G. Broadsheet 93: 45-6; Oct 1981.

• 1989. The Carpathians. New York: Braziller.

o Steinberg, Sybil. Publishers Weekly 234(9): 76; 26 Aug 1988.

o Evans, Patrick. Listener 122(2534): 70-3; 24 Sep 1988.

o Adcock, Fleur. New Statesman & Society 1: 42; 30 Sept 1988.

o King, Michael. Metro 8(88): 216-9; Oct 1988.

o Duffy, Julia. Library Journal 113: 102; 15 Oct 1988.

o Smith, Shona. Press p.28; 15 Oct 1988.

o Corbett, Frank. North and South p.122-4; Nov 1988.

o Sharp, Iain. More p.248; Nov 1988.

o Pilling, J. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4470: 1350; 2 Dec 1988.

o Ash, Susan. Landfall 43: 518-22; Dec 1989.

o Wartik, Nancy. New York Times Book Review 94: 22; 22 Jan 1989.

o Alcock, Peter. Span 28: 105-7; April 1989.

o Press Sup.p.10; 15 Aug 1992.

• 2007. Towards Another Summer. Auckland: Vintage (Posthumously published).

Short stories

• 1951. The Lagoon and Other Stories. Christchurch: Caxton Press. (Mistakenly dated on first edition as 1952)

o Guest, Patricia. Landfall 6: 152-3; June 1952.

o Sargeson, Frank. Listener 26(667): 12-13; 18 April 1952.

o NZ Monthly Review 2(19): 23-4; Dec 1961.

o Reynolds, Ted. New Zealand Herald 2: 6; 11 Aug 1990.

o Kidman, Fiona. Evening Post. p.9; 24 Aug 1990.

o Griffiths, George. Otago Daily Times p.21; 25 Aug 1990.

o O'Brien, Timothy. Dominion Sunday Times p.14; 9 Sept 1990.

o Curry, Joan. Press p.26; 13 Oct 1990.

o Aitken, Tom. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) 4600: 21; 31 May 1991.

• 1963. The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches/Snowman Snowman: Fables and Fantasies. New York: Braziller (Edited selection published in the Commonwealth edition The Reservoir and Other Stories London: W.H. Allen, 1966).

o Craig, D. New Statesman 71: 347; 11 Mar 1966.

o Observer p.27; 27 Mar 1966.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.361; 28 April 1966.

o Hall, David. Listener p.21; 29 July 1966.

o Bertram, James. Landfall 20: 290-2; Sept 1966.

• 1983. You Are Now Entering the Human Heart. Wellington: Victoria University Press.

o Cusack, G. Listener 106(2299): 82; 3 Mar 1984.

o Mitchison, N. New Statesman 108: 30; 19 Oct 1984.

o Adcock, Fleur. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.1281; 9 Nov 1984.

o British Book News p.117; Feb 1985.

o Armstrong, T. D. London Review of Books 7: 26; 5 Dec 1985.

o New Zealand Herald 2: 6; 19 Sept 1992.

Children's fiction

• 1969. Mona Minim and the Smell of the Sun. (With illustrations by Robin Jacques.) New York: Braziller (Reissued posthumously in 2005 by Random House, New Zealand, with illustrations by David Elliot).

o Publishers Weekly 195: 96; 14 Apr 1969.

o Kirkus Review 37: 502; 1 May 1969.

o New York Times Book Review 2: 34; 4 May 1969.

o National Observer 8: 23; 9 June 1969.

o Library Journal 94: 3204; 15 Sept 1969.

o New York Times Book Review 2: 62; 9 Nov 1969.

o McLeod, Marion. Listener 135(2): 52-53; 5 Sept 1992.

Poetry

• 1967. The Pocket Mirror. New York: Braziller.

o Kirkus Reviews 35: 310; 1 Mar 1967.

o Willingham, J.R. Library Journal 92: 1938; 15 May 1967.

o Stepanchov, S. New Leader 50: 20; 14 Aug 1967.

o Press, J. Punch 254: 211; 7 Feb 1968.

o TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.155; 15 Feb 1968.

o Choice 5: 48; Mar 1968.

o Reid, J.C. Listener p.20; 29 Mar 1968.

o New & Notable 9(4): 17-18; Nov 1992.

o Allan, Guy. New Zealand Herald 2: 6; 10 Oct 1992.

o Kidman, Fiona. Dominion Sunday Times p.22; 13 Sept 1992.

o Stead, C. K. New Zealand Books 11(3): 21-22; Aug 2001.

• 2006. The Goose Bath. Auckland: Random House/Vintage (Posthumously published); (Released in the UK as a collected edition along with selections from The Pocket Mirror under the title Storms Will Tell: Selected Poems. Bloodaxe Books, 2008)

Autobiography

• 1982. To the Is-Land (Autobiography 1). New York: Braziller.

o Publishers Weekly 222: 350; 27 Aug 1982.

o Library Journal 107: 1872; 1 Oct 1982.

o Beston, J. Kunapipi 5(2): 105-107; 1983.

o O'Sullivan, Vincent. Listener 103(2253): 82-3; 9 April 1983.

o McKenzie, C. NZ Woman's Weekly p.141-43; 4 July 1983.

o Broadsheet 113: 43; Oct 1983.

o Armstrong, T.D. London Review of Books 7: 26; 5 Dec 1985.

o Theobald, G. PSA Journal 72(10): 12; Nov 1985.

o Canadian Forum 69: 31; April 1989.

o Brooke, Agnes Mary. Press p.26; 14 Sept 1991.

• 1984. An Angel at My Table (Autobiography 2). New York: Braziller.

o Publishers Weekly 225: 94-95; 22 June 1984.

o Wevers, Lydia. Listener 107(2319): 68-9; 21 July 1984.

o McLauchlan, Gordon. Metro 38: 143; Aug 1984.

o Library Journal 109: 1441; Aug 1984.

o Courtney, H. Broadsheet 122: 45; Sept 1984.

o Tolerton, Jane. NZ Woman's Weekly p.157-8; 10 Sept 1984.

o Mitchison, N. New Statesman 108: 30; 19 Oct 1984.

o Bevington, Helen. New York Times Book Review 89: 26; 7 Oct 1984.

o Adcock, Fleur. TLS (Times Literary Supplement) p.1281; 9 Nov 1984.

o Beston, J. Kunapipi 7(2/3): 193-4; 1985.

o British Book News p.117; Feb 1985

o Theobald, G. PSA Journal 72(10): 12; Nov 1985.

o Armstrong, T. D. London Review of Books 7: 26; 5 Dec 1985.

o Brooke, Agnes Mary. Press p.26; 14 Sept 1991.

• 1984. The Envoy From Mirror City (Autobiography 3). Auckland: Century Hutchinson.

o Stuttaford, Genevieve. Publishers Weekly 228: 42; 19 July 1985.

o King, Michael. Metro 51: 196-97; Sept 1985.

o Wevers, Lydia. Listener 111(2377): 53; 7 Sept 1985.

o Cox, Shelley. Library Journal 110: 76; 15 Sept 1985.

o Sternhell, Carol. New York Times Book Review 90: 80; 6 Oct 1985.

o Theobald, G. PSA Journal 72(10): 12; Nov 1985.

o Broadsheet 134: 32; Nov 1985.

o Gerrard, N. New Statesman 110: 35; 29 Nov 1985.

o Armstrong, T. D. London Review of Books 7: 26; 5 Dec 1985.

o British Book News p.54; Jan 1986.

o Canadian Forum 68: 31; April 1989.

o Brooke, Agnes Mary. Press p.26; 14 Sept 1991.

• 1989. An Autobiography (Collected edition). Auckland: Century Hutchinson (Posthumously reprinted under the title An Angel at My Table, London: Virago, 2008).

o Ballantyne, D. N. Otago Daily Times p.28; 21 June 1989.

o Smith, Shona. Press p.25; 24 June 1989.

o Anderson, Barbara. Listener 124(2576): 74; 22 July 1989.

o Corbett, Frank. North and South p.135-138; Aug 1989.

o Walters, Margaret. New Statesman & Society 3(127): 37; 16 Nov 1990.

o Bliss, Carolyn. World Literature Today 66(2): 408-409; Spring 1992.

Separately published stories and poems

• 1946. "University Entrance" in New Zealand Listener, 22 March 1946.
• 1947. "Alison Hendry" in Landfall 2, June 1947. (Published under the penname Jan Godfrey; reprinted in The Lagoon and Other Stories under the title "Jan Godfrey".)
• 1954. "The Waitress" in New Zealand Listener, 9 July 1954
• 1954. "The Liftman" in New Zealand Listener, 13 August 1954
• 1954. "On Paying the Third Installment" in New Zealand Listener, 10 September 1954
• 1954. "Lolly Legs" in New Zealand Listener, 15 October 1954
• 1954. "Trio Concert" in New Zealand Listener, 29 October 1954.
• 1954. "Timothy" in New Zealand Listener, 26 November 1954
• 1955. "The Transformation" in New Zealand Listener, 28 January 1955
• 1956. "The Ferry" in New Zealand Listener, 13 July 1956.
• 1956. "Waiting for Daylight" in Landfall (NZ) 10
• 1956. "I Got Shoes" in New Zealand Listener, 2 November 1956.
• 1957. "Face Downwards in the Grass" in Mate (NZ) 1
• 1957. "The Dead" in Landfall (NZ) 11
• 1957. "The Wind Brother" in School Journal (NZ) 51.1
• 1958. "The Friday Night World" in School Journal (NZ) 52.1
• 1962. "Prizes" in The New Yorker 10 March 1962
• 1962. "The Red-Currant Bush, the Black-Currant Bush, the Gooseberry Bush, the African Thorn Hedge, and the Garden Gate Who Was Once the Head of an Iron Bed" in Mademoiselle April 1962
• 1963. "The Reservoir" in The New Yorker 12 January 1963 (reprinted in The Reservoir: Stories and Sketches)
• 1963. "The Chosen Image" in Vogue, July 1963
• 1964. "The Joiner" in Landfall (NZ) 18
• 1957. "The Road to Takapuna" in Mate (NZ) 12
• 1964. "Scott's Horse" in Landfall (NZ) 18
• 1964. "The Senator Had Plans" in Landfall (NZ) 18
• 1965. "The Bath" in Landfall (NZ) 19 (Reprinted in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart)
• 1966. "A Boy's Will" in Landfall (NZ) 20
• 1966. "White Turnips: A Timely Monologue" in New Zealand Monthly Review May 1966.
• 1966. "In Alco Hall" in Harper's Bazaar, November 1966
• 1968. "In Mexico City" in New Zealand Listener, 20 December 1968
• 1969. "You Are Now Entering the Human Heart" in The New Yorker 29 March 1969 (Reprinted in You Are Now Entering the Human Heart)
• 1969. "The Birds of the Air" in Harper's Bazaar, June 1969
• 1969. "Jet Flight" in New Zealand Listener, 8 August 1969
• 1969. "The Words" in Mademoiselle October 1969
• 1970. "Winter Garden" in The New Yorker 31 January 1970
• 1974. "They Never Looked Back" in New Zealand Listener, 23 March 1974
• 1975. "The Painter" in New Zealand Listener, 6 September 1975
• 1976. "Rain on the Roof" in The Journal (NZ), April 1976 (Previously published in The Pocket Mirror)
• 1979. "Insulation" in New Zealand Listener, 17 March 1979
• 1979. "Two Widowers" in New Zealand Listener, 9 June 1979
• 2004. "Three Poems by Janet Frame" in New Zealand Listener, 28 August-3 September 2004.

Articles, reviews, essays and letters

• 1953. "A Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Landfall 25, March 1953
• 1954. "Review of Terence Journet's Take My Tip" in Landfall 32, December 1954
• 1955. "Review of A Fable by William Faulkner" in Parson's Packet, no. 36, October-December 1955.
• 1964. "Memory and a Pocketful of Words" in Times Literary Supplement, 4 June 1964
• 1964. "This Desirable Property" in New Zealand Listener, 3 July 1964
• 1965. "Beginnings" in Landfall (NZ) 73, March 1965
• 1968. "The Burns Fellowship" in Landfall (NZ) 87, September 1968
• 1973. "Charles Brasch 1909-1973: Tributes and Memories from His Friends" in Islands (NZ) 5, Spring 1973.
• 1975. "Janet Frame on Tales from Grimm" in Education (NZ) 24.9, 1975
• 1982. "Departures and Returns" in G. Amirthanayagan (ed.) Writers in East-West Encounter, London: Macmillan, 1982 (Originally delivered as a paper at the International Colloquium on the Cross-Cultural Encounter in Literature, East-West Center, Honolulu, October 1977).
• 1984. "A last Letter to Frank Sargeson" in Islands (NZ) 33, July 1984.

Critical Works on Janet Frame

Across the lines : intertextuality and transcultural communication in the new literatures in English. Edited by Wolfgang Klooss. Amsterdam ; Atlanta, GA : Rodopi, 1998.

Alcock, P. 'A writer on the edge: Janet Frame and New Zealand identity.' Commonwealth: Miscellanies, Melanges 1: 171-175; 1974-75.

Alcock, P. 'Frame's binomial fall, or fire and four in Waimaru.' Landfall 29(3): 179-187; Sept 1975.

Alcock, Peter. 'On the edge: New Zealanders as displaced persons.' World Literature Written in English 16: 127-42; 1977.

Alley, Elizabeth. 'An honest record: an interview with Janet Frame.' Landfall 45: 154-168; June 1991.

and edited by Elizabeth Alley. Wellington: Daphne Brasell, 1994.

Angelo, Faye M. 'Paying attention to Living in the Maniototo.' Research essay, MA. University of Auckland, 1989.

Ash, Susan. "Janet Frame: The Female Artist as Hero." Journal of New Zealand Literature 6 (1988): 170-89.

Ash, Susan. 'Narrating a female subjectivity in the works of Katherine Mansfield, Robin Hyde, Janet Frame and Keri Hulme.' Thesis, PhD. University of Otago, 1990.

Ash, Susan. 'Scandalously in-different? Janet Frame, postmodernism and gender.' In: Opening the Book: New Essays on New Zealand Writing. Edited by Mark Williams and Michele Leggott. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1995.

Ash, Susan. 'The absolute distanced image: Janet Frame's autobiography.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 21-40; 1993.

Ash, Susan. 'The narrative frame: "unleashing (im)possibilities".' Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 5: 1-15; Spring 1991.

Ashcroft, W. D. 'Beyond the alphabet: Janet Frame's Owls Do Cry.' Journal of Commonwealth Literature 12(1): 12-23; Aug 1977.

Baisnee, Valerie. 'Gendered resistance : a comparative study of four twentieth-century women's autobiographies.' Thesis, PhD. University of Auckland, 1994.

Baisnee, Valerie. Gendered resistance: the autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir, Maya Angelou, Janet Frame and Marguerite Duras. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997. (Originally Thesis, PhD. University of Auckland, 1994.)

Ball, John Clement. 'Framing the American abroad: a comparative study of Robert Kroetsch's Gone Indian and Janet Frame's The Carpathians.' Canadian Literature no.141: 38-50; Summer 1994.

Barrie, Lita. 'Further toward a deconstruction of phallic univocality : deferrals.' AGMANZ Journal 17(4): 3-12; Summer 1986/87.

Barringer, T. 'Power of speech and silence.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 71-88; 1993.

Bazin, Claire. ' "Homelessness of self" : Janet Frame's autobiography.' In: Mapping the self : space, identity, discourse in British auto/biography. Edited by Frederic Regard. Saint-Etienne, France : Universite de Saint-Eitienne, 2003. pp. 313-21. (Discusses To the Is-land, An Angel at My Table, The Envoy from Mirror City.)

Bazin, Claire. 'An angel at my table.' Commonwealth: essays and studies 17(1): 80-88; Autumn 1994.

Bazin, Claire. 'Taboo or not taboo?' Janet Frame's autobiography.' Commonwealth Essays and Studies 24(2): 17-127; Spring, 2002

Bergmann, Laurel. 'The spectacle of the other.' SPAN 36: 608-17; 1993.

Beston, John B. 'A bibliography of Janet Frame.' World Literature Written in English 17: 570-85; 1978.

Beston, John B. 'A brief biography of Janet Frame.' World Literature Written in English 17: 565-69; 1978.

Beston, John. 'The effect of alienation on the themes and characters of Patrick White and Janet Frame.' In: Individual and Community in Commonwealth Literature. Edited D. Massa. Msida: University of Malta Press, 1979. p.131-139.

Bird, Hawk, Bogie: Essays on Janet Frame. Edited by Jeanne Delbaere. Aarhus: Dangaroo Press, 1978.

Birns, N. 'Gravity star and memory flower: space, time and language in The Carpathians.' Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 5: 16-28; Spring 1991.

Blackburn, Joan, and Judith Doyle. 'Janet Frame heritage trail; Walking the trail.' New Zealand Historic Places 67: 14-16; Mar 1998.

Blowers, Tanya. 'The Textual Contract: Distinguishing Autobiography from the Novel.' In: Representing Lives: Women and Auto/Biography. Edited by Alison Donnell and and Pauline Polkey. Houndmills, England ; New York, NY : Macmillan--St. Martin's, 2000.

Blowers, Tanya. 'To the Is-land : self and place in autobiography.' Australian Canadian Studies : a journal for the humanities and social sciences 18(1-2): 51-64; 2000.

Blowers, Tonya. 'Madness, philosophy and literature: a reading of Janet Frame's Faces in the Water.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 14: 74-89; 1996. (Compares Faces in the Water and Madness and Civilisation, by Michel Foucault.)

Bragan, K. 'Medicine and literature: Janet Frame: contributions to psychiatry.' New Zealand Medical Journal 100(817): 70-73; 11 Feb 1987.

Bragan, Ken. 'Survival after the cold touch of death: the resurrection theme in the writing of Janet Frame.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 132-143; 1993.

Brame, Gillian R. 'A discussion of theme and image in the major fiction of Janet Frame.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 1965.

Brooke, Agnes Mary. 'Janet Frame's evocative memories.' The Press p.26; 14 Sept 1991.

Brooks, Peter. "Fictions of the Wolf Man: Freud and Narrative Understanding." Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. New York: Knopf, 1984. 264-85.

Brown, R. 'A state of siege: the sociable Frame.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 49-58; 1993.

Brown, R. 'Owls do Cry: portrait of New Zealand?' Landfall 44(3): 350-358; Sept 1990.

Brown, R. 'The Rainbirds: and other Dunedins.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 10: 115-125; 1992.

Brown, R. 'The unravelling of a mad myth.' Women's Studies Journal 7(1): 66-74; May 1991.

Buchanan, Carol. 'Framed.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland. 2005.

Caffin, Elizabeth. 'Ways of saying in recent New Zealand fiction.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 2: 7-14; 1984.

Calder, Alex. 'The closure of sense: Janet Frame's language, and the body.' Antic 3: 93-104; Nov 1987.

Canetti, Lidia. 'Janet Frame, the little child in us.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 188-192; 1993.

Caney, Diane. 'Janet Frame and The Tempest.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 152-171; 1993.

Carroll, Brigid. 'Patterns of language and marginality in Janet Frame.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 1988.

Casertano, Renata. 'Falling Away from the Centre: Centrifugal and Centripetal Dynamics in Janet Frame's Short Fiction.' In: Telling Stories: Postcolonial Short Fiction in English. Edited by Jacqueline Bardolph. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2001. pp. 349-56.

Chellappan, K. 'The child archetype in the Commonwealth short stories: Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame and Mulk Raj Anand.' Commonwealth Review (New Delhi) 1(1): 60-68; 1989.

Chenery, Susan. 'The final word. Interview.' Sunday Star Times D: 1-2; 25 Sept 1994.

Chua, Siew Keng. 'Some women poets of the sixties: Janet Frame, Fleur Adcock, Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton.' Thesis, PhD. University of Auckland, 1981.

Clarke, Jacqueline. 'The dis-ease of writing.' Illusions 15: 18-19; Dec 1990.

Clement, Shelley. "Frame to Screen." Onfilm Oct.-Nov. 1989: 13.

Cook, Marjorie. 'Frame in focus.' Otago Daily Times p.4; 9 July 2001.

Cooke, Grayson. "Can I Play with your Janet Frame?" J. A. A. M. [Just Another Art Movement, Wellington] May 1996: 60-62.

Cunningham, Kevin. The New Zealand Novel. Wellington: School Publications Branch, Dept of Education, 1980. (Includes Owls Do Cry.)

Curry, J. '40 Years of Janet Frame.' Press p.26; 13 Oct 1990.

Daley, Gail. 'Janet Frame.' Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services 3(2): 101-102; June 1990.

Dalziel, Margaret. Janet Frame. Wellington: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Davis, Rose. 'Words and worlds of dream in the novels of Janet Frame.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 2002.

Delbaere, Jeanne. "Beyond the Word: Scented Gardens for the Blind." The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame. Ed. Jeanne Delbaere. Aarhus: Dangaroo, 1992. 97-109.

Delbaere-Garant, J. 'Daphne's metamorphoses in Janet Frame's early novels.' Ariel 6(2): 23-37; April 1975.

Delbaere-Garant, J. 'Death as the gateway to being in Janet Frame's novels.' In: Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World. Edited by H. Maes-Jelinek. Brussels: Didier, 1975; papers delivered at conference of same title, Liege, 1974. p.147-55.

Delbaere-Garant, Jeanne. "The Divided Worlds of Emily Brontë, Virginia Woolf, and Janet Frame." English Studies 60 (1979): 699-711.

Delrez, Marc. "'Boundaries and Beyond': Memory as Quest in Janet Frame's The Carpathians." Commonwealth 13.1 (Autumn 1990): 95-105.

Delrez, Marc. 'Forbidding bodies ; avatars of the physical in the world of Janet Frame.' World Literature Written in English 38(2): 70-79; 2000.

Delrez, Marc. 'Love in a post-cultural ditch: Janet Frame.' Kunapipi 13(3): 108-116; 1991.

Delrez, Marc. Manifold Utopia: The Novels of Janet Frame. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2002

Dingwall, Richard. 'An inward sun : the world of Jane Frame.' Takahe 44: 61-62; Dec 2001. (Reviews the exhibition of photographs at the Hocken Library, University of Otago, Dunedin.)

Dowling, D. 'Brave new worlds: Janet Frame's Intensive Care and Hugh MacLennan's Voices in Time.' World Literature Written in English 25(1): 169-81; Spring 1986.

Dunsford, Cathy, and Susan Hawthorne, eds. The Exploding Frangipani: Lesbian Writing from Australia and New Zealand. Auckland: New Women's Press, 1990.

Dupont, V. 'Editor's postscript.' Commonwealth: Miscellanies, Melanges 1: 175-6; 1974-75.

Dupont, V. 'Janet Frame's brave new world: Intensive Care.' In: Commonwealth Literature and the Modern World. Edited by H. Maes-Jelinek. Brussels: Didier, 1975. pp.157-67.

Dupont, V. 'The novels of Janet Frame.' In: Common Wealth. Edited by A. Rutherford. (Conference of Commonwealth Literature, Aarhus University 1971). Aarhus: Akademisk Boghandel, 1972.

Edmond, Lauris. "Janet Frame: Writer." Affairs [NZ] Nov. 1972: 10-11.

Eldred-Grigg, Stevan. 'A bourgeois blue? Nationalism and letters from the 1920s to the 1950s.' Landfall 41(3): 293-311; Sept 1987.

Ensing, Riemke. 'Janet Frame: talking treasure: a perspective from New Zealand.' Commonwealth 14(1): 47-57; Autumn 1991.

Essays on Contemporary Post-Colonial Fiction. Edited by Hedwig Bock and Albert Wertheim. Munchen: Hueber, 1986.

Evans, P. D. 'Farthest from the heart: the autobiographical parables of Janet Frame.' Modern Fiction Studies 27(1): 31-40; Spring 1981.

Evans, Patrick. "Alienation and the Imagery of Death: The Novels of Janet Frame." Meanjin 32 (1973): 294-303.

Evans, Patrick. "'Farthest from the Heart': The Autobiographical Parables of Janet Frame." Modern Fiction Studies 27 (1981): 31-40.

Evans, Patrick. "Filming Fiction." Illusions [NZ] 15 (1990): 14-17.

Evans, Patrick. "Janet Frame and the Art of Life." Meanjin 44 (1985) 375-83.

Evans, Patrick. "The Case of the Disappearing Author." Journal of New Zealand Literature 11 (1993): 11-20.

Evans, Patrick. "The Muse as Rough Beast: The Autobiography of Janet Frame." Untold [NZ] 6 (1986): 1-10.

Evans, Patrick. An Inward Sun: the novels of Janet Frame. Wellington: Price Milburn, 1970.

Evans, Patrick. 'Filming fiction.' Illusions 15: 14-17; Dec 1990.

Evans, Patrick. 'Janet Frame and the Adaptable Novel.' Landfall 25(4): 448-55; Dec 1971.

Evans, Patrick. 'Janet Frame and the art of life.' Meanjin 44: 375-83; Sept 1985.

Evans, Patrick. Janet Frame. Boston: Twayne, 1977.

Evans, Patrick. 'Living and writing in the Maniototo.' Span 18: 76-88; April 1984.

Evans, Patrick. 'Paradise or slaughterhouse: some aspects of New Zealand proletarian fiction.' Islands 8: 71-85; 1980.

Evans, Patrick. 'The "Frame effect".' New Zealand Books 14(2): 13-14; June 2004. (Evaluates the work and achievements of Frame. Considers that her genius was to dissolve the boundary between life and art and provides examples. Discusses the 'Frame effect' : a secret concealed in her writing, and his perception of her contract with the reader.)

Evans, Patrick. 'The case of the disappearing author.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 11-20; 1993.

Evans, Patrick. 'The muse as a rough beast: the autobiographies of Janet Frame.' Untold 6: 1-10; Spring 1986.

Ferrier, Carole. "The Rhetoric of Rejection: Janet Frame's Recent Work." South Pacific Images. Ed. Chris Tiffin. Brisbane: Academy P, 1978. 196-203.

Ferrier, Carole. 'Dualities and differences revisited: recent books on Janet Frame.' Hecate 20(2): 251-258; 1994.

Ferrier, Carole. Preface and Afterword. The Janet Frame Reader. By Janet Frame. Ed. Carole Ferrier. London: Women's Press, 1995. 11-22, 207-24.

Findley, Timothy. 'Legends.'. Landfall 40(3): 327-32; Sept 1986.

Finney, Vanessa. "Speaking for Herself: The Autobiographies of Janet Frame." MA Thesis. U of Sydney, 1993.

Finney, Vanessa. "What Does 'Janet Frame' Mean?" Journal of New Zealand Literature 11 (1993): 193-205.

Fry, A. 'Homage to Frame.' Listener 107(2321): 57; 25 Aug 1984.

Gay, Penny. 'Bastards from the bush: Virginia Woolf and her Antipodean relations.' In: Virginia Woolf: emerging perspectives. Edited by M. Hussey, V. Noverow and J. Lilienfeld. New York: Pace University Press, 1994. pp.289-95.

Gifkins, Michael. 'Bookmarks : another chance.' Listener 125(2596): 128; 4 Dec 1989.

Gillett, Sue. 'Angel from the mirror city : Jane Campion's Janet Frame.' Senses of the Cinema : an online film journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema (no pagination) Nov 2000 .

Griffiths, P. 'Janet Frame's "Swans".' Words 4: 97-108; Jan 1974.

Gudmundsdottir, Gunnthorunn. Borderlines : autobiography and fiction in postmodern life writing. Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2003.

Hankin, Cherry. 'Language as theme in Owls Do Cry.' Landfall 28(2): 91-110; June 1974. Reprinted in: Critical essays on the New Zealand novel. Edited by C. Hankin. Auckland: Heinemann Educational Books, 1977. pp.88-104.

Hansson, Karin. The Unstable Manifold: Janet Frame's Challenge to Determinism. Lund: Lund University Press, 1996. (Lund Studies in English 87)

Harding, Bruce. 'The nativization of feeling : motifs of bonding to the past and to the land in Janet Frame's A State of Siege (1996) and in The Carpathians (1998).' Journal of New Zealand Literature 18-19: 114-38; 2000-2001.

Hardy, Linda. 'The ghost of Katherine Mansfield'. Landfall 43(4): 416-432; Dec 1989.

Harris, Wilson. 'On the beach.' Landfall 155: 335-341; Sept 1985.

Hawes, Tara. “Janet Frame: The Self as Other/Othering the Self” Deep South v.1 n.1 (February, 1995) http://www.otago.ac.nz/DeepSouth/vol1no1/hawes1.html

Henke, Suzette A. "The Postmodern Frame: Language and Point of View in The Carpathians." Commonwealth Literary Cultures: New Voices, New Approaches. Ed. Giovanna Capone, Claudio Gorlier, and Bernard Hickey. Lecce: Edizione del Grifo, 1991. 367-80.

Henke, Suzette A. 'Jane Campion frames Janet Frame : a portrait of the artist as a young New Zealand poet.' Biography : an interdisciplinary quarterly 23(4): 651-69; Fall 2000.

Henke, Suzette. 'A portrait of the artist as a young woman: Janet Frame's autobiographies.' Span 31: 85-94; Feb 1991.

Henke, Suzette. 'The postmodern Frame: metalepsis and discursive fragmentation in Janet Frame's The Carpathians.' Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 5: 29-38; Spring 1991.

Horrocks, R. 'Readings of A State of Siege (1967) and A State of Siege (1978).' And. 3: 131-145; Oct 1984.

Hotere, Andrea. 'Signs of life.' New Zealand Education Review 1(25): 17-18; 25 Oct 1996. (Interview with Michael King about biography of Janet Frame.)

Huggan, G. 'Resisting the map as metaphor: a comparison of Margaret Atwood's Surfacing and Janet Frame's Scented gardens for the blind.' Kunapipi 11(3): 5-15; 1989.

Hyman, S.E. 'Reason in madness.' In: Standards: a chronicle of books for our time. New York: Horizon Press, 1966. pp.239-43.

Ingram, Penelope. 'Can the settler speak? Appropriating subaltern silence in Janet Frame's The Carpathians.' Cultural Critique 41: 79-107; Winter 1999.

Irvine, Lorna M. Critical spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1995.

Jackson, Kamala. 'C. K. Stead : poet, novelist, academic, activist and Aucklander on his origins, Frank Sargeson and Janet Frame, feminism and writing.' Metro 44: 122-130; Feb 1985.

'Janet Frame.' New Zealand Official Yearbook, 1993.

'Janet Frame.' In: In the same room: conversations with New Zealand writers. Edited by Elizabeth Alley and Mark Williams. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1992. p.39-54.

Jennings, Olivia. 'Seeking indegineity : the search for the "Lost Tribe" in Janet Frame's The Edge of the Alphabet.' World Literature Written in English 38(2): 80-93; 2000.

Jigger, V. 'The grammar of journey: Doris Lessing and Janet Frame.' Doris Lessing Newsletter 7(1): 11-12; Summer 1983.

Jones, Dorothy. "The Hawk of Language and the Plain of Blood: Living in the Maniototo." The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame. Ed. Jeanne Delbaere-Garant. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992. 177-87.

Jones, L. 'The one story, two ways of telling, three perspectives : recent New Zealand literary autobiography.' Ariel 16(4): 127-150; Oct 1985.

Jones, Lawrence. Barbed wire and mirrors: essays on New Zealand prose. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1987. 2nd ed. 1990.

Jones, Lawrence. 'Continuing accomplishment: novels in 1988.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 7: 106-130; 1989.

Jones, Lawrence. 'No cowslip's bell in Waimaru: the personal vision of Owls Do Cry.' Landfall 24(3): 280-96; Sept 1970.

Journal of New Zealand Literature. Janet Frame issue 11, 1993.

Keith, Hamish. 'Pin Money.' Sunday Star Times Sunday: 27; 29 June 2003.

King, Michael. An Inward Sun: the World of Janet Frame. Auckland: Penguin, 2002. (Pictorial biography.)

King, Michael. 'Janet Frame : Antipodean phoenix in the American chicken coop.' Antipodes : A North American Journal of Australian Literature 15:(2): 86-87; Dec 2001.

King, Michael. 'Something nobody counted on.' Listener p.22-24; 28 April 2001. (Gives an account of the NZ doctor who discovered Williams Syndrome, and who was presumed to be dead after disappearing in 1969. Discusses how he contacted the author in relation to King's biography of writer Janet Frame.)

King, Michael. 'The compassionate truth.' Meanjin 61(1): 24; Mar 2002.

King, Michael. Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame. Washington: Counterpoint, 2000.

Kitchin, Peter. 'Daring to be different.' Dominion Post p.13; 9 July 2003.

Lambert, A. 'The memory flower, the gravity star and the real world.' In: New Zealand Literature Today. See above.

Lambert, Alison. 'Coverups and exposure: art and ideology in The Carpathians.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 172-177; 1993.

Lawn, Jennifer, "Redemption, Secrecy, and the Hermeneutic Frame in Janet Frame's Scented Gardens for the Blind." ARIEL 30, no. 3 (July 1999): 105-26.

Lawn, Jennifer. 'Docile bodies: normalization and the asylum in Owls Do Cry.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 178-187; 1993.

Lawn, Jennifer. 'The many voices of Owls Do Cry : a Bakhtinian approach.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 8: 87-105; 1990.

Luke, Alistair. 'The spare room and the view.' Thesis, BArch. University of Auckland, 1985.

Mackenzie, Joy Marie. 'Facing our terrible gods: the personal poetry of Meg Campbell.' Thesis, MA., University of Auckland, 1995. (Discusses Janet Frame, among others.)

MacLennan, C. 'Conformity and deviance in the fiction of Janet Frame.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 6: 190-201; 1988.

MacLennan, C. 'Dichotomous values in the novels of Janet Frame.' Journal of Commonwealth Literature 22(1): 179-189; 1987.

MacLennan, C. 'Myths and masks in two of Janet Frame's novels The Adaptable Man and Yellow Flowers in the Antipodean Room (Rainbirds).' Kunapipi 9(2): 105-113; 1987.

Malterre, M. 'La recheche d'identite dans A State of Siege de Janet Frame.' Etudes Anglaises 25: 232-44; April/June 1972.

Malterre, M. 'Myths and esoterics: a tentative interpretation of Janet Frame's A State of Siege.' Commonwealth 2: 107-12; 1976.

Maxwell, Anne. 'Reading "the bone people": toward a literary postcolonial nationalist discourse.' l. Antic 3: 23-45; Nov 1987.

McEldowney. Dennis. 'Recent literary biography.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 2: 47-58; 1984.

McLeod, Aorewa. 'An innocent's look at New Zealand women writers.' Women's Studies Journal 2(2): 2-13; Aug 1986.

McLeod, Aorewa. 'Private lives and public fictions.' In: Public and private worlds: women in contemporary New Zealand. Edited by Shelagh Cox. Wellington: Allen & Unwin in association with Port Nicholson Press, 1987. p.67-81.

McLeod, Marion. 'Janet Frame: in reality mode.' Listener 122(2534): 24-6; 24 Sept 1988.

McNaughton, H. 'Abjection, melancholy and the end note: the epilogue to Owls do cry.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 89-105; 1993.

McNaughton, H. 'Fraying the edge of an alphabet.' Span 36(1): 131-143; Oct 1993.

Mercer, G. 'Exploring "the secret caves of language": Janet Frame's poetry.' Meanjin 44: 384-90; Sept 1985.

Mercer, Gina. 'A simple everyday glass : the autobiographies of Janet Frame.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 41-48; 1993.

Mercer, Gina. Janet Frame: Subversive Fictions. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1994. (Contains extensive bibliography.)

Mercer, Gina. 'The Edge of the Alphabet - journey: destination death.' Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 5: 39-57; Spring 1991.

'New Zealand literature: Janet Frame and the psychological novel.' In: Common Wealth. Edited by A. Rutherford. (Conference of Commonwealth Literature, Aarhus University 1971). Aarhus: Akademisk Boghandel, 1972.

New, W. H. 'The frame story world of Janet Frame.' Essays on Canadian Writing (Toronto) 29:175-191; Summer 1984

Norton, David. 'Life on the edge of death.' Climate 29: 54-67; Autumn 1979.

O'Brien, Gregory. 'Explorations.' In: Moments of invention: portraits of 21 New Zealand writers. Auckland: Heinemann Reed, 1988. pp.138-144.

O'Brien, Susie. '"little ole Noo Zealand": representations of NZ-US relations in Janet Frame's Carpathians.' Kunapipi 15(1): 94-102; 1993.

Oettli-van Delden, Simone. Surfaces of Strangeness: Janet Frame and the Rhetoric of Madness. Wellington: Victoria University Press, 2003.

O'Hare, Noel. 'Missing Frame.' Listener 130(2675): 57; 1 July 1991.

O'Neill, Phillip Raymond. 'Unsettling the empire: postcolonialism and the troubled identities of settler nations.' Thesis--New York University, 1993. (Janet Frame, Keri Hulme and Henry Lawson.)

O'Sullivan, Vincent. 'Exiles of the mind: the fictions of Janet Frame.' In: A sense of exile: essays in the literature of the Asia-Pacific region. Edited by B. Bennett and S. Miller. Nedlands: Centre for Studies in Australian Literature, University of Western Australia, 1988. pp.181-187.

Panny, Judith Dell. "A Hidden Dimension in Janet Frame's Fiction." Journal of New Zealand Literature 11 (1993): 59-70.

Panny, Judith Dell. "Opposite and Adjacent to the Postmodern in Living in the Maniototo." The Ring of Fire: Essays on Janet Frame. Ed. Jeanne Delbaere-Garant. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992. 188-98.

Panny, Judith Dell. 'A hidden dimension in Janet Frame's fiction.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 59-70; 1993.

Panny, Judith Dell. I Have What I Gave: The Fiction of Janet Frame. New York: George Braziller, 1993.

Perrier, Jean-Louis. 'New Zealand Pacific doorway.' Antipodes 1: 38-42; 1995.

Perry, Nick. 'Flying by nets: the social pattern of New Zealand fiction.' Islands 3(2): 161-177; Dec 1987.

Petch, S. 'Janet Frame and the languages of autobiography.' Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada 5: 58-71; Spring 1991.

Petch, Simon. 'Speaking for herselves.' Southerly 54(4): 44-58; Summer 1994-95.

Petrie, Barbara. Kiwi & Emu: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Australian and New Zealand Women. Springwood, NSW: Butterfly, 1989.

Phillipson, Allan. 'Brain drain : the port as plughole in New Zealand literature.' Australian Canadian Studies : a journal for the humanities and social sciences 18(1-2): 87-98; 2000. (Comparison of John Mulgan's Man Alone with Owls do Cry in relationship to harbours, escape, and provincialism.)

Platz, N. H. 'Janet Frame's novels and the disconcert in the reader's mind.' In: Anglistentag 1990 Marburg: Proceedings. Edited by C. Uhlig and R. Zimmerman. Tubingen: Niemeyer, 1991. pp.413-428.

Platz, Norbert H. "Janet Frame's Novels and the Disconcert in the Reader's Mind." Anglistentag 12 (1991): 413-28.

Potter, N. 'The voyage between self and society.' In: International literature in English. Edited by Robert L. Ross. London: Garland, 1991. pp.547-556.

Prentice, Chris. 'Introduction'. Journal of New Zealand Literature 11. 1993. pp.1-10.

Rathgen, E. 'A woman on her own.' Women's Studies Association Conference Papers p.113-118; 1983.

Review of Janet Frame issue of Journal of New Zealand Literature 11, 1993.

Review of three-part TV mini-series: Brian McDonnell. North and South p.142-143; Sept 1990.

Rhodes, H. Winston. "Preludes and Parables: A Reading of Janet Frame's Novels." Landfall 27 (1972): 135-46.

Rhodes, H. Winston. 'Janet Frame: a way of seeing in The Lagoon and Other Stories.' In: CriticalEssays on the New Zealand Short Story. Edited by Cherry Hankin. Auckland: Heinemann, 1982. p.112-

Richards, Ian. 'The facts of life : Janet Frame's The Bath.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 18-19: 173-81; 2000-2001.

Roberts, Heather. Where Did She Come From?: New Zealand Women Novelists, 1862-1987. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1989.

Robertson, R. T. 'Bird, Hawk, Bogie: Janet Frame 1952-62.' Studies in the Novel 4(2): 186-99; 1972.

Rochette-Crawley, Susan. 'Janet Frame.' In: A Reader's Companion to the Short Story in English. Edited by Erin Fallon, et al. Westport, CT. : Greenwood, 2001. pp.162-166.

Rockel, Angela. 'Meeting the angel.' Southerly : a review of Australian literature. 62(3); 8-18; 2002.

Ross, R. 'Linguistic transformation and reflection in Janet Frame's Living in the Maniototo.' World Literature Written in English 27(2): 321-26; Autumn 1987.

Rutherford, A. 'Janet Frame's divided and distinguished worlds.' World Literature Written in English 14(1): 51-68; April 1975.

Sambamoorthy, Ahila. '"The Fantastic" as a Mode of Writing in Janet Frame's Stories.' Deep South 3(2): Winter 1997.

Sanchez Mosquera, Ana Maria. 'Un/writing the body : Janet Frame's An Angel at my Table.' Commonwealth Novel in English 9-10: 218-41; Spring-Fall 2000-2001.

Schwartz, Susan. "Dancing in the Asylum: The Uncanny Truth of the Madwoman in Janet Frame's Autobiographical Fiction." ARIEL 27.4 (1996): 113-27.

Scopes, Eve. 'Re-visioning Daughter Buffalo.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 144-151; 1993.

Sharp, Iain. 'A bluffer's guide to Janet Frame.' Quote Unquote 9: 16-18; Mar 1994. (Synopses of Janet Frame's works.)

Sharp, Iain. 'Frame reconsidered.' Sunday Star Times Sunday: 32; 19 Oct 2003.

Sharp, Iain. 'In the Frame.' Sunday Star Times C: 7; 15 Sept 2002. (Interviews Michael King about An Inward Sun.)

Simmons, Vinette. 'The spilt ink club.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 2001. (Discusses Robin Hyde, Janet Frame and Eve Langley.)

Skolil, G. 'Symbolism in Janet Frame's short stories and novels.' Thesis, MA. Universite de Toulouse-Le Mirail (Toulouse) [1978?] .

Smaill, Anna. 'Existence as threat in Janet Frame's fiction.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 2002.

Smaill, Anna. 'Keeping company.' Booknotes 146: 3-5; Winter 2004.

Smith, S. 'Fixed salt beings: isms and living in the maniototo.' Untold 5: 24-32; Autumn 1986.

Smith, Shona. 'Still suppressing...; reviewers and Daughter Buffalo.' Untold 8: 38-41; Spring 1987.

Speirs, Malcolm. Three poems of Janet Frame: for high voice and twelve instrumentalists. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 1985.

Stead, C. K. 'A retrospect : Janet Frame's Pocket Mirror.' In: Kin of Place. Auckland : Auckland University Press, 2002. Also published as 'Keyboard practice' in New Zealand Books 11(3): 21-22; Aug 2001.

Stead, C. K. All visitors ashore. London: Harvill; Auckland: Collins, 1984. (Considered to be, in part, based on Janet Frame at time of writing of Owls Do Cry.)

Stead, C. K. In the Glass Case: Essays on New Zealand Literature. Auckland: Auckland U P, 1981. 130-36.

Stead, C. K. 'Janet Frame, Janet Clutha and Karl Waikato.' Landfall 198: 217-232 Spring 1999.

Stead, C. K. 'Janet Frame: language is the hawk.' In: In the Glass Case: essays on New Zealand literature. Auckland: Oxford University Press; Auckland University Press, 1981. Reprinted in Kin of Place. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2002.

Stead, C. K. 'King's Frame.' In: Kin of Place. Auckland, Auckland University Press, 2002.

Stein, Karen F. 'The dark laughter of Janet Frame: Janet Frame's humour.' Pacific Quarterly Moana 9(2): 41-7; 1985.

Sutherland, Katherine G. 'Land of their graves : maternity, mourning and nation in Janet Frame, Sara Suleri, and Arundhati Roy.' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature/Revue Canadienne de Litterature Comparee 30(1): 201-16; 2003.

Sutherland, V. 'Postmodernist strategies in Janet Frame's Scented gardens for the blind.' In: New Zealand Literature Today. Edited by R. K. Dawhan and W. Tonetto. New Delhi: Indian Society for Commonwealth Studies, 1993.

Sutherland, Valerie. 'A ventriloquist in the house of replicas: a reading of The Carpathians.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 106-113; 1993.

Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia. 'Janet Frame: some themes from her novels.' Thesis, MA. University of Auckland, 1974.

The Inward Sun: Celebrating the Life and Work of Janet Frame. Selected

The ring of fire: essays on Janet Frame. Edited by Jeanne Debaere. Sydney: Dangaroo Press, 1992.

Tinkler, Alan. 'Janet Frame.' Review of Contemporary Fiction 24(2): 89-124; Summer 2004.

Unsworth, Jane. 'Why does an author who apparently draws so much on autobiography seem committed to 'alienating' the reader? A reflection on theories of autobiography with reference to the work of Janet Frame.' In: The Uses of Autobiography. Edited by Julia Swindells. London: Taylor & Francis, 1995.

Webby, E. 'The uses of fiction: some recent novels from the South Pacific region.' Span 21: 29-37; Oct 1985.

Webby, Elizabeth, and Lydia Wevers, eds. Goodbye to Romance: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women, 1930s-1980s. Wellington: Allen & Unwin, 1989.

Webby, Elizabeth. 'Attending and avoiding.' NZ Books 4(2): 5-6; Aug 1994.

West, P. L. 'The Lacanian real and Janet Frame's Living in the Maniototo.' In: New Zealand Literature Today. See above.

Wevers, Lydia, ed. Yellow Pencils: Contemporary Poetry by New Zealand Women. Auckland: Oxford UP, 1988.

Wheeler, Kathleen. A guide to twentieth-century women novelists. Oxford: Blackwell, 1997. pp.192-195.

Williams, Mark. 'Janet Frame (1924-2004).' Journal of Commonwealth Literature 39(2): 121-126; June 2004.

Williams, Mark. 'Janet Frame's suburban gothic.' In: Leaving the Highway: six contemporary New Zealand novelists. Edited by Mark Williams, Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1990.

Williams, Mark. Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists. Auckland: Auckland U P, 1990.

Wilson, Janet. 'Post-modernism or post-colonialism? Fictive strategies in Living in the Maniototo and The Carpathians.' Journal of New Zealand Literature 11: 114-131; 1993.

Wilson, Janet. 'Teaching the New Zealand novel : prose-poetry and the ideology of the "Third Way" : essays in honour of Dieter Riemenschneider.' In: Crabtrack : progress and process in teaching the new literatures in English. Edited by Gordon Collier and Frank Schulze-Engler. Amsterdam, Netherlands : Rodopi, 2002. pp. 305-20.

Wilson, Janet. 'The abject and sublime: enabling conditions of New Zealand's postcolonial identity.' In Postcolonial Cultures and Literatures. Edited by Andrew Benjamin, Tony Davies and Robbie Goh. New York: Lang, 2002.

Zimitis, Peteris. 'Poety Novoi Zelandii.' Molodaia Gvardiia: Ezhemesiachnyi Literaturno Khudozhestvennyi i Obshchestvenno Politicheskii Zhurnal (Moscow) 8: 204-214; 1984.

Zinato, Susanna. The house is empty: grammars of madness in J. Frame's Scented Gardens for the Blind and B. Head's A Question of Power. Bologna: CLUEB, 1999.

News & Media Articles on Janet Frame (Chronological)

'Janet Frame: N.Z. writer.' Northland 23: 5-11; July 1963.

Graham, D. 'Intelligence and wit.' Journal of Commonwealth Literature 4: 148-50; Dec 1967.

'Artists' retreats. Janet Frame.' Listener 64(1605): 13; 27 July 1970.
(Interview with Claire Henderson.)

Stevens, Joan. 'The art of Janet Frame.' Listener 64(1593): 13,52; 4 May 1970.

Edmond, L. 'New Zealand writers: Janet Frame.' Affairs p.10-11; Nov 1972.

'Janet Frame: it's time for France.' Listener 74(1772): 20-21; 27 Oct 1973.

Leiter, R. 'Reconsideration: the novels of Janet Frame.' New Republic p.21-22; 31 May 1975.

A State of Siege. Wellington: Ministry of Education, 1978. (Videorecording.)

Jones, Laura. An Angel at My Table: the screenplay. Auckland: Random Century, 1990.
An Angel at My Table, 1991 (Film.)

Morgan, Robin. An Angel at My Table (Review) Ms Magazine 1(4): 66; Jan/Feb 1991.

Lopate, Phillip. An Angel at My Table (Review) Vogue 181(3): 260-261; Mar1991.

Cunneen, Joseph. An Angel at My Table (Review) National Catholic Reporter 27(32): 16; 7 June 1991.

Pitman, Randy. An Angel at My Table (Review) Library Journal 117(6): 166; 1 April 1992.

Bevington, H. 'Girl from New Zealand.' New York Times Book Review p.14; 12 Nov 1982.

Levy, F. 'Janet Frame: joy in a world of words.' NZ Woman's Weekly p. 20-1; 21 Mar 1983.

Reid, T. 'Framed!' NZ Woman's Weekly p.60-2; 5 Aug 1985.

Janet Frame. Three stories: 'The Reservoir'; 'You Are Now Entering the Human Heart'; 'Keel and Kool'. Wellington: Ministry of Education, 1989. (Sound recording.)

'Janet Frame TV series role for Wellington actor.' Evening Post p.2; 9 May 1989.

'Carpathians wins book award for Janet Frame.' Evening Post p.43; 1 June 1989.

Clement, Shelley. 'Frame to screen.' Onfilm 6(6): 13; Oct/Nov 1989.

McChesney, Megan. 'Red wigs, faded dresses - and a cure for shyness.' New Zealand Woman's Weekly p.8-9; 24 Sept 1990. (Child actors in An Angel at my Table.)

McLeod, Marion. 'The angels at our table: the language of the is-land.' Listener 128(2638): 102-103; 8 Oct 1990. (Interview with Laura Jones.)

Kidman, Fiona. 'Janet Frame in fact and fiction.' Evening Post p.9; 24 Aug 1990.

Reynolds, Ted. 'Talent escaped scalpel's cut.' New Zealand Herald 2: 6; 11 Aug 1990.

Carter, Alison. 'Kerry's Janet moves cinema-goers to tears.' New Zealand Woman's Weekly p.8-9; 6 Aug 1990.

Wakefield, Philip. 'Angel wings to Venice.' Onfilm 7(6): 5; Sept 1990.

Thompson, Alastair. 'Campion film scoops eight awards in Venice.' Dominion p.1; 17 Sept 1990.

Byrnes, Anne. The NZ picture is looking good.' National Business Review Sup.p.8-9; 5 Oct 1990.

Wakefield, Philip. 'Finding the angel within.' Evening Post p.12; 4 Oct 1990.
(Kerry Fox as Janet Frame.)

Wakefield, Philip. 'Best times, worst times.' Onfilm 7(7): 8; Oct 1990.

'Intimate look at Janet Frame.' Otago Daily Times p.18; 6 July 1991. (Interview with Jane Campion.)

Campion, Edith. 'There's nothing the matter with Elizabeth Jane.' Ms Magazine 1(4): 67; Jan/Feb 1991.

Bilbrough, Miro. 'Being Janet.' Listener 128(2638): 104; 8 Oct 1990. (Interviews Kerry Fox.)

Lang, Rachel. 'NZ Film Awards: angel flies, Ruby shines.' Onfilm 7(8): 1, 6; Nov 1990.

Parker, John. 'Frames of reference.' Metro 113: 188; Nov 1990.

Tansley, R. 'Self-centred cinema: language and the writer in An Angel at My Table.' Antic 8: 52-53; Dec 1990.

Langston, R. 'Oamaru's famous daughter leaves little trace.' Dominion Sunday Times p.11; 23 Dec 1990.

Ross, Frances. 'Queen invests Frame and Curnow.' Dominion p.3; 15 Feb 1990.

'Highest NZ royal honours awarded.' Dominion p.1,2; 6 Feb 1990.

O'Brien, T. 'Frame stories still fresh almost 40 years on.' Dominion Sunday Times p.14; 9 Sept 1990.

'Frame by Stones.' Off the Record 6: 9; 1999. (Notes that Anthony Stones is working on a sculpture of Janet Frame.)

Smith, Charmian. 'The compassionate truth about Frame.' Otago Daily Times H: 27; 5 Aug 2000.

Palmer, Rebekah. 'Historian at her table.' Dominion p.20; 5 Aug 2000.

McCrystal, John. 'Frame of reference.' Evening Post p.31; 5 Aug 2000.

Moore, Christopher. 'No ordinary life.' The Press Sup.p.5; 5 Aug 2000.

Stuck, Meredith. 'City a special place for Janet Frame.' Wanganui Chronicle p.2; 6 Aug 2000.

Hubbard, Anthony. 'Frame of mind.' Sunday Star Times C: 1,10; 6 Aug 2000.

Welch, Denis. 'A biographer at her table.' Listener p.20-24; 12 Aug 2000.
(Talks to Michael King about the writing of Wrestling with the Angel.)

Moore, Christopher. 'No ordinary life.' World Press Review 47(11): 14(2); Nov 2000.

'An angel in waiting: our greatest writer, Janet Frame is terminally ill.' Sunday Star Times p.1; 7 Dec 2003.

Hubbard, Anthony. 'Fading tomorrows.' Sunday Star Times C: 1-2; 7 Dec 2003.

Hubbard, Anthony. 'An angel in waiting.' Sunday Star Times p.1; 7 Dec 2003.

Moore, Christopher. 'Salute to an enigma.' The Press p.3; 13 Dec 2003.

Off the Record 11: 8; 2004. Obituary.

McLean, Robyn. Dominion Post p.3; 30 Jan 2004.

Crean, Mike. The Press 30 Jan 2004.

Kitchin, Peter. Dominion Post B: 5; 30 Jan 2004.
(Traces the life and career of the writer.)

Daily News p.1; 30 Jan 2004.

McLeod, Scott. 'Janet Frame : famously shy, profoundly gifted.' New Zealand Herald Sup. 30 Jan 2004.

McLauchlan, Gordon. 'Literary angel mourned.' New Zealand Herald 31 Jan 2004.

'Opinion.' Evening Standard 31 Jan 2004.

King, Michael. 'Great writer and real dag.' Sunday Star Times A: 10; 1 Feb 2004.

Stead, C. K. 'The gift of language.' Listener 192(33260: 18-23; 7 Feb 2004.

King, Michael. 'Janet and the birds ; words at Janet Frame's funeral, Dunedin, 14th February 2004.' Landfall 207: 161-3; 2004.

Scott, Mike. Otago Daily Times p.4; 16 Feb 2004.

Janet Frame (1924-2004).' New Zealand Books 14(1): p.2; Mar 2004.

Wong, Gilbert. 'An angel in Auckland.' Metro (Auckland) 273: 98; Mar 2004.

Sharp, Iain. 'Revisiting the angel.' Sunday Star Times C:7; 12 Sept 2004.

Buchanan, Carol 'Angels and insects.' Sunday Star Times C: 6; 16 Oct 2005.
(Recalls Mona Minim and the smell of the sun, recently reissued by the Janet Frame Trust and Random House NZ.)

Buchanan, Carol. 'Poetry in the Frame.' Sunday Star Times C: 8; 26 Feb 2006.
(Speaks to Bill Manhire about the writer's poetry and the new collection The Goose Bath which he co-edited with Pamela Gordon and Denis Harold.)

Smith, Charmian. 'Poetry reveals Frame as mischievous, witty.' Otago Daily Times Sup. p.6; 25 Mar 2006. (Talks to Bill Manhire about The Goose Bath.)