Janet Frame in Her Own Words by Frame, Janet -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Contents Dedication Preface: Frame Unframed Introduction Janet Frame

Part 1: Published Non-Fiction

Review of Take My Tip Choked with Characters Memory and a Pocketful of Words This Desirable Property Beginnings The Burns Fellowship Tribute to Charles Brasch Tales from Grimm Departures and Returns A Last Letter to Frank Sargeson A Great Many Good Writers

Part 2: From Interviews

‘OUT OF NEW ZEALAND’ ‘JANET FRAME STAR WRITER IN GLOSSY MAGAZINE’ ‘EXCITING NZ FROM AFAR’ ‘NOTED NZ WRITER IS “INSPIRED BY PEOPLE”’ ‘NOTED AUTHOR ON VISIT TO OAMARU’ ‘WELL-KNOWN WRITER RETURNS TO OAMARU’ ‘JANET FRAME — WORLD LITERARY FIGURE: LOOKING FORWARD TO LISTENING TO OUR “SILENCE”’ ‘1965 BURNS FELLOW IS JANET FRAME’ ‘THE AUTHOR SPEAKS’ ‘ARTISTS’ RETREATS’ ‘IT’S TIME FOR FRANCE’ ‘JANET FRAME — WRITER’ DRAFT LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NORTH SHORE GAZETTE ‘THREE NEW ZEALANDERS: JANET FRAME’ ‘TOP AUTHOR SETTLES IN TARANAKI’ ORAL HISTORY RECORDING Hypotenuse The Retreat from Ermenonville ‘SILENCE AND SOLITUDE ARE KEYS TO JANET FRAME’S WORLD’ ‘VISIONARY VIEW OF THE “TAPESTRY OF WORDS”’ ‘JANET FRAME … JOY IN A WORLD OF WORDS’ ‘“SECRET” LIFE IN SUBURBS’ ‘MY SAY’ NOTES FOR INTERVIEWS ‘ALONE ON A RIVER OF WORDS’ NOTES TOWARDS LONDON INTERVIEWS, 1984 ‘SHE LIVED AN EIGHT-YEAR NIGHTMARE — AND JANET FRAME’S POETRY WAS THE KEY TO HER ESCAPE’ TORONTO INTERVIEW ‘FREEZE FRAME’ ‘THE ENVOY FROM MIRROR CITY’ ‘JANET’S PEN TRIUMPHS OVER A SCALPEL’ ‘JANET FRAME IN REALITY MODE’ ‘TRACES OF HONEY’ ‘NEW ZEALAND’S OBVIOUS NOBEL PRIZE CANDIDATE’ INTERVIEW FOR LA STAMPA, ITALY ‘LIFE OF A WRITER FRAME BY FRAME’ ‘THE FINAL WORD’ JANET FRAME: A BRIEF TELEVISION APPEARANCE ‘JANET FRAME BIOGRAPHY’ ‘AN ANGEL IN WAITING: OUR GREATEST WRITER IS TERMINALLY ILL: FADING TOMORROWS’

Part 3: Letters to the Editor

1935 DOT’S LITTLE FOLK ‘BEST LETTERS’ 1936 ADVERTISING FOR A PENFRIEND 1936 DOT’S LITTLE FOLK ‘BEST LETTERS’ 1947 PSYCHOLOGY AND JARGON 1956 OUTSIZE PEACHES 1957 OWLS DO CRY 1961 APPLES IN SAND, GRAPES IN STRAW 1968 HANDICAPPED CHILDREN 1972 D’ARCY CRESSWELL 1974 PROTEST AT A PROPOSED HELIPORT IN MENTON, FRANCE 1974 KATHERINE MANSFIELD ROOM IN MENTON 1977 THE COLIN MOYLE AFFAIR 1977 CANCELLATION OF BLUE STREAK RAILCAR SERVICE 1979 THE STRATFORD LIBRARY 1981 COUNTING THE HUMAN COST JUNE 1985

Part 4: Speeches and Reports

1963 Review of Trespasser on Earth by Joan Sturges 1965 Report on Being the Burns Fellow 1980 Poetry Reading at Kaitoke Prison 1984 Fifth International Festival of Authors, Toronto 1987 The First Frank Sargeson Fellow 1992 Message for a Book Launch 1993 Massey University Medal 1994 Speech for a Book Launch, Wellington Writers and Readers Week 1996 Gabriela Mistral Medal Award Speech at the Chilean Embassy

Part 5: Correspondence

Metaphor: Charles Brasch Intensive Care: Bill Brown Joseph Conrad: Bill Brown Reviews: Bill Brown Frances Hodgkins and Katherine Mansfield: Bill Brown On the death of James K. Baxter: Bill Brown Two books at once: Bill Brown On deciding to write her autobiography: R.H. Cawley Draft letter to a copy editor re An Angel at My Table: Keith Goldsmith Further comments on judging the American Express Short Story competition: Graeme Lay Genuine reply to a fan letter: carbon copy On the subject of Frank Sargeson: Bill Brown Draft letter to a publisher re The Carpathians: George Braziller Tongue-in-cheek template for answering fan letters: draft Draft letter to a publisher re a new edition of An Adaptable Man: Harriet Allan

Part 6: Unpublished Non-Fiction

A Statement Notes on Maurice Gee’s A Special Flower Burns Fellow Random notes on Sex and Creativity On using a typewriter The self On deciding what not to write about The new book Preparing to write The Carpathians Favourite writers I gave up writing novels

Part 7: Fictions and Poems

Interview in New York Lives of the Writers. Extracts from. News from the Millicent Peapod School of Fiction My Next Book Meeting a Character The Interview Poems My Will A Second Chance

Notes Acknowledgements Copyright Page

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