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“... quite literally saved their own lives through writing. In the second volume of her autobiography, Janet Frame describes how she was rescued from the leucotomy then fashionable in New Zealand mental hospitals by attracting the attention of the superintendent. Her first volume of short stories, The Lagoon, had won the Hubert Church Award, the first of many ...”

“... went to see An Angel at My Table, Jane Campion’s film about her fellow New Zealander, the writer Janet Frame. In the film we see Frame, played by Kerry Fox, recently released from a long spell in a mental hospital, given shelter and support by a white-goateed older writer called Frank Sargeson, played by Martyn ...”

“... Katherine Mansfield was born in 1888, Sylvia Ashton-Warner in 1908 and Janet Frame in 1924 – three New Zealand women each of whom has achieved some measure of literary fame or reputation outside the country in which she was born. They have in common that they have worked uneasily in (and always breaking out of) the fictional mode ...”

“... married and living on Auckland’s North Shore close to the Sargeson house, at the back of which Janet Frame, recently released from years of incarceration in mental institutions, was living in an old army hut and writing her first novel, Owls do cry. Frame discusses that time in the second volume of her ...”

“... great novels of the century, The Man Who Loved Children. When my story appeared someone wrote to Janet Frame recommending it. She wrote to say how much she’d enjoyed it but asking why I was now writing as a woman. This confusion was sorted out when I found that the next issue of the Kenyon Review contained Christina Stead’s novella ‘The ...”

“... quieter and not so persistent, though.”’ I once read a biography of the New Zealand writer Janet Frame. It was very long, and in my recollection largely consisted of Frame in perpetual movement from one house to the next, each more isolated than the last, in a desperate attempt to find somewhere quiet to live ...”

“... she said. There are two narratives in Point Omega, subtly but distinctly linked, although the frame looks at first as if it is only a frame. The longer story, placed in the middle of this seeming frame, concerns Elster, who has taken to thinking about the meaning of life in his ...”

“... and borrow an ordinary one for the competition. In the centre of our shelves stood our photo-frame, a difficult area that couldn’t be tidied away or forgiven. With opposing views on the subject, our parents were looking straight past one another into opposite corners of the room. 3 We said out loud, ‘Brothers and sisters have I none, but this man’s ...”

“... wrong construction on what you picked up. How then can you create a narrative of your own life? Janet Frame compares the process to finding a bunch of old rags, and trying to make a dress. A party dress, I’d say: something fit to be seen in. Something to go out in and face the world. For a few years, in my dreams, I stayed thin, and I wore a thin ...”

“... rules and evaluate them’. To which Greenbaum adds: ‘What they may need to learn is how to frame their advice in language that will be clear and persuasive to non-experts.’ This is no doubt a prudent afterthought, though my experience is that by comparison with some literary theoreticians, grammarians achieve a lucidity verging on charm. The first ...”

“... usage can wholly repair, if only because such books are burdened with diverse tasks. They have to frame recommendations, general and specific, for the practice of language; they must furnish at least a little basic information about grammar and linguistic terms; and if they have pretensions to being anything more than ready-reference rule-givers, they ought ...”

“... pack of instincts – natural affections which antient philosophers have stuck upon the human frame – constitution like burrs and patches.’ ‘Benevolence’ can be chased back down 18th-century corridors to Shaftesbury and beyond, and up and down Hartleyan staircases, but one wonders how far it was a philosophical term of art at all and how far a ...”

“... no initial capital. Collins defines motorcycle as ‘a two-wheeled vehicle, having a stronger frame than a bicycle, that is driven by a petrol engine’. Much of this is obviously ‘encyclopedic’ (indeed incidental), threatening the definition of other words with hair-raising implications which fortunately are not often realised. (We are not told, for ...”

“... scientists investigating the Atlantis Massif along the mid-Atlantic ridge. When it appeared in the frame of their remotely controlled camera – named Argo – there was, by all accounts, a certain degree of excitement. The Lost City consisted of a field of white towers: hydrothermal vents, populated by tiny see-through creatures. So did this mean that Plato ...”