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Haurongo: Frame, Janet Paterson

An angel at my table

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An angel at my table

Janet Frame (back) poses with the actresses who portrayed her at different ages in Jane Campion’s film An angel at my table (1990) – from left, Karen Fergusson, Alexia Keogh and Kerry Fox. The film was based on Frame’s immensely popular three-volume autobiography, To the is-land (1982), An angel at my table (1984) and The envoy from mirror city (1985).

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Patrick Evans. 'Frame, Janet Paterson', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2010. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/28057/an-angel-at-my-table (accessed 4 June 2026).