This is the third volume in Janet Frame's autobiography. In it the New Zealand novelist tells how, following the nightmare of her years in mental hospitals and the publication of her first book in New Zealand, she left home to embark on a journey to Europe. She dreamt of Bitish publication with pale poets in Soho and found love in an artists' colony in Ibiza. The book also tells of her return to London and the publication of her first novel.
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This is the third volume in Janet Frame's autobiography. In it the New Zealand novelist tells how, following the nightmare of her years in mental hospitals and the publication of her first book in New Zealand, she left home to embark on a journey to Europe. She dreamt of Bitish publication with pale poets in Soho and found love in an artists' colony in Ibiza. The book also tells of her return to London and the publication of her first novel.
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Auckland. 1985. Hutchinson & Company. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0091616905. Winner Wattie Book Of The Year in New Zealand. hardcover. keywords: Literature New Zealand Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER-THE ENVOY FROM MIRROR CITY is the third book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as 'One of the greatest autobiographies written this century. ' It describes her travels overseas and entry into the saving world of writers and the 'Mirror City' that sustains them. First published in 1985, it won the prestigious Wattie Book of the Year Award. In the 1980s Frame authored three volumes of autobiography (TO THE IS-LAND, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE and THE ENVOY FROM MIRROR CITY) which collectively traced the course of her life to her return to New Zealand in 1963. Director Jane Campion and screenwriter Laura Jones adapted the trilogy for television broadcast. It was eventually released as an award-winning feature film, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE. Actresses, Kerry Fox, Alexia Keogh and Karen Fergusson portrayed the author at various ages. Frame's autobiographies sold better than any of her previous publications, and Campion's successful film adaptation of the texts, introduced a new generation of readers to her work. These successes increasingly pushed Frame into the public eye. Frame said the autobiographies let her set the record straight regarding her past and in particular her mental status. However, critical and public speculation has continued to focus on her mental health. In 2007, after Frame's death, The New Zealand Medical Journal published an article by a medical specialist who proposed that Frame may have registered on what is referred to as the autistic spectrum, a suggestion that was disputed by the author's literary executor. inventory #7587.
