Kōrero: Frame, Janet Paterson

Seacliff Mental Hospital

Seacliff Mental Hospital

This 1912 photograph of Seacliff Mental Hospital, north of Dunedin, shows the forbidding Gothic buildings that were still a feature of the institution when Janet Frame was committed there in November 1945. She had been diagnosed with incipient schizophrenia after a suicide attempt, and was to spend the next eight years in and out of mental hospitals in Otago, Christchurch and Auckland.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: PAColl-8769-02

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārangi:

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/mi/biographies/6f1/frame-janet-paterson (accessed 30 March 2024)