Further Reading
- "Old Girls, Young Girls," The Times Literary Supplement (28 April 1966): 361. (Describes the fiction in The Reservoir and Other Stories as uneven and objects to Frame's literary style. The critic states that "The faintly gushing intensities of the style serve well enough in the various childhood episodes . . . , but become embarrassing in the open-ended little allegories which make up a sizable part of the book.")
- "The Slipcase Syndrome," Time 82, No. 12 (20 September 1963): 108, 110. (Disparages The Reservoir and Snowman, Snowman: "Like her excellent . . . novel, Faces in the Water, the short pieces collected here deal with failure, loneliness, quiet despair, and the rubble-filled borderland between sanity and madness. But there was strength in the novel, and there is none in the stories.")
- Beston, John B., "A Bibliography of Janet Frame," World Literature Written in English 17, No. 2 (November 1978): 570-85. (Provides a comprehensive bibliography of work by and about Frame, including unpublished dissertations, translations, and dramatizations.)
- Beston, John B., "A Brief Biography of Janet Frame," World Literature Written in English 17, No. 2 (November 1978): 565-69. (Offers an overview of Frame's life and works up to 1978.)
- Brown, Kevin, "Wonder Currencies," Times Literary Supplement, No. 4311 (15 November 1983): 1295. (Finds that Frame's novel Owls Do Cry falls short of its potential poignancy.)
- Buitenhuis, Peter, "Silent Jungle," New York Times Book Review (16 August 1964): 5, 20. (Unfavorable assessment of Scented Gardens for the Blind.)
- Chisholm, Anne, "Needing to Imagine," Times Literary Supplement, No. 4188 (8 July 1983): 737. (Favorably assesses the first volume of Frame's autobiography, To the Is-Land, claiming that the author writes with "originality and power.")
- Craig, David, "Tanks, Trees," New Statesman 71 (11 March 1966): 347-48. (Applauds the naturalistic stories in The Reservoir but criticizes Frame's fantastic tales and her habit of "wishing sinister or apocalyptic significances onto her humdrum fabrics.")
- Delbaere-Garant, Jeanne, "Beyond the Word: Janet Frame's Secret Gardens for the Blind," in The Commonwealth Writer Overseas: Themes of Exile and Expatriation, edited by Alastair Niven, pp. 289-300. Liège: Revue des Langues Vivantes, 1976. (Considers Secret Gardens for the Blind Frame's quintessential novel, arguing that the work skillfully expresses the disconnectedness and despair of the modern world.)
- Evans, Patrick, Janet Frame. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1977, 228 p. (Offers a comprehensive overview of Frame's life and works up to 1978. Biocritical study that focuses primarily on Frame's novels but also discusses The Lagoon, The Reservoir, and uncollected stories.)
- Jones, Lawrence, "No Cowslip's Bell in Waimaru: The Personal Vision of Owls Do Cry," Landfall 24, No. 3 (September 1970): 280-96. (Discusses Frame's Owls Do Cry* as a modern psychological novel, comparing it to works by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Faulkner.)
- MacLennan, Carol, "Dichotomous Values in the Novels of Janet Frame," The Journal of Commonwealth Literature XXII, No. 1 (1987): 179-89. (Argues that Frame has repeatedly chosen to write about alternative views of the world, life, and reality.)
- Muchnick, Laurie, "Up from Down Under," The Village Voice XXXVI, No. 33 (13 August 1991): 69. (Discusses Frame's career, with an emphasis on several of her later literary works, including The Carpathians, An Autobiography, and Living in the Maniototo.)
- Nyren, Dorothy, A review of Snowman, Snowman and The Reservoir, Library Journal 88, No. 14 (August 1963): 2926. (Summarizes the types of stories in these collections as "memories of childhood and allegorical moralities." Nyren finds Frame to be a heavy-handed author: "She writers her symbols large, circles around them two or three times, and, then, just to make sure, explains them.")
- Williams, Mark, "Janet Frame's Suburban Gothic," in Leaving the Highway: Six Contemporary New Zealand Novelists, pp. 30-56. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 1990. (Provides a bio-critical overview of Frame's work.)
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