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Biography: Frame, Janet Paterson

Links and sources

Websites

Frame, Janet

The New Zealand Book Council’s profile of Janet Frame.

The Janet Frame Collection: NZ On Screen

A collection of films and material relating to Frame, on the NZ On Screen site.

Janet Frame Eden Street Trust

The website of the trust that administers Janet Frame's childhood home at 56 Eden Street in Ōamaru.

Janet Frame Literary Trust

The website of the charitable trust founded by Frame in 1999, and of Frame’s literary estate.

Bibliography

Alley, Elizabeth, ed. The inward sun: celebrating the life and work of Janet Frame. Wellington: Daphne Brasell Associates Press, 1994.

Frame, Janet. An autobiography. Auckland: Century Hutchinson, 1989.

Frame, Janet. ‘Beginnings.’ Landfall 19 (March 1965): 40–47.

King, Michael. An inward sun: the world of Janet Frame. Auckland: Penguin, 2002.

King, Michael. Wrestling with the angel: a life of Janet Frame. Auckland: Viking, 2000.

How to cite this page

Patrick Evans. 'Frame, Janet Paterson', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/139740/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).