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Janet Paterson Frame ONZ CBE (28 August 1924 – 29 January 2004) was a New Zealand author. She is internationally renowned for her work, which includes novels, short stories, poetry, juvenile fiction, and an autobiography, and received numerous awards including being appointed to the Order of New Zealand, [1] New Zealand's highest civil honour.
An Angel at My Table is a dramatisation of the autobiographies of New Zealand author Janet Frame.Originally produced as a television miniseries, the film, as with Frame's autobiographies, is divided into three sections, with the lead role played by three actresses who portray Frame at different stages of her life: Alexia Keogh (child), Karen Fergusson (teenager), and Kerry Fox (adult).
Author Janet Frame attended some of Money's classes at the University of Otago, as part of her teacher training. Frame was attracted to Money, and eager to please him. [ 19 ] In October 1945, after Frame wrote an essay mentioning her thoughts of suicide, [ 20 ] Money convinced Frame to enter the psychiatric ward at Dunedin Hospital , where she ...
Janet Frame: To the Is-land: 1982 Janet Frame: An Angel at My Table and The Envoy From Mirror City: 1984 Eudora Welty: One Writer's Beginnings: 1983 Roald Dahl: Boy: Tales of Childhood: 1984 Roald Dahl: Going Solo: 1986 Anthony Burgess: Little Wilson and Big God: 1986 Annie Dillard: An American Childhood: 1987 Anthony Burgess: You've Had Your ...
This was followed by her adaptation of the Janet Frame autobiography, An Angel at My Table (1990), which was directed by Jane Campion. She collaborated again with Campion, this time on The Portrait of a Lady (1996). The following years saw her team up with Armstrong on Oscar and Lucinda, adapted from the novel by Australian writer Peter Carey ...
Janet Frame, writer. Frame described some of her experiences in Sunnyside Hospital in her autobiography An Angel at My Table , and her novel Faces in the Water . [Mrs R. said it would] be a good idea for me to admit myself as a voluntary boarder to Sunnyside Mental Hospital where there was a new electric treatment , which, in her opinion, would ...
Kerry Lauren Fox [1] (born 30 July 1966) is a New Zealand actress. [2] She came to prominence playing author Janet Frame in the movie An Angel at My Table directed by Jane Campion, [2] which gained her a Best Actress Award from the New Zealand Film and Television Awards.
She then studied at Dunedin Teachers' Training College where she met and befriended Janet Frame. [5] The two became lifelong friends; in fact Natusch was the first person to read Frame's manuscript for Owls Do Cry. [5] Later she studied at the University of Otago, graduating Bachelor of Arts in 1948 and Master of Arts with second-class honours ...