![]() ![]() She was the victim of a congenital heart defect-the same condition that claimed the third sister Isabel, who died 10 years later at the age of 21 in another drowning accident. When the son George, developed epilepsy, the family’s meagre funds went on a fruitless search to find a cure for his condition.Įven more tragically, Janet’s older sister Myrtle, aged 16, went swimming one summer afternoon at the local pool, and drowned. Her father was a railway worker and later an engine driver, and although he kept his job during the 1930s Depression, the family had little money to spare. It had the hallmark of authenticity, much of it based on her own experiences.īorn in 1924, Frame grew up in the South Island of New Zealand, the second daughter in a family of four girls and a boy. ![]() ![]() She was one of New Zealand’s best-known writers and her life became the subject of Jane Campion’s 1990 film An Angel at My Table, which earned her books an even wider audience.įrame’s best writing provides an account of complex and tormented psychological states. ![]() Prolific author Janet Frame died on January 29 of leukemia aged 79. ![]()
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