An Autobiography (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Janet Frame
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1924 to the 1960’s
- Setting: New Zealand, England, and Spain
- Principal Characters: Janet Frame, George Samuel Frame, Lottie Godfrey Frame, Frank Sargeson, Myrtle Frame, Robert “Bruddie” Frame, Isabel Frame, June Frame
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Family or family life, Authors or writers, Literature, Alienation, Mental illness, Novelists, Creative process, Tragedy, New Zealand or New Zealanders
- Locales: Spain, England, New Zealand
Form and Content
An Autobiography is New Zealand author Janet Frame’s three-volume examination of her life from her birth through the early years of her career as a writer. The volumes were published separately over a four-year period, and each one deals with a distinct phase of Frame’s life. The first volume, To the Is-Land, looks at the years of her childhood until her departure from home for teachers college. The second, An Angel at My Table, deals with her training as a teacher, her nervous breakdown and the years of hospitalization that followed,...
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