Literary Tourism in the "Kingdom By the
Sea"
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Eden Street - Janet Frame's childhood home
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North
Otago Museum Janet Frame exhibits
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Oamaru
Public Library Janet Frame Collection
Willowglen,
Chelmer Street
Oamaru
Gardens
Janet
Frame Walks
Janet
Frame Walking Tour
Contact the Oamaru I-Site +643 4341656 for brochures and
flyers, and information about Janet Frame Guided Tours and Janet Frame walks,
and other places of interest on the Janet Frame Trail.
More NZ sites with Literary
Connections
Check out the Aotearoa
Literary Map (A3 size pdf available)
Janet Frame lived in
many parts of New Zealand
and several local communities honour their link to the world famous author.
In Dunedin
city environs, three separate plaques commemorate Janet Frame's connection
with the region: one is situated in the Octagon just beside the statue of
Robert Burns; another is to be found right outside the main entrance to the
Railway Station at the bootom of Lower Stuart Street.
The third plaque is
located in the grounds of the former garden of the Superintendant of Seacliff
Hospital.
Dunedin
Writers Walk
Aotearoa
Literary Map - Southland and Otago
Takapuna
Writers Walk
Includes 14 Esmonde Road, Frank Sargeson's former
home. In the 1950s Janet Frame had a short but influential stay in the army
hut behind the small fibrolite bach, during which time she wrote her first
novel Owls Do Cry.
Pictured below, Frame executor Pamela Gordon relaxes in
Frank's sitting room, reminiscing on childhood times spent at the house while
her aunt's legendary literary mentor was still 'holding court' over a
generation of NZ writers.
Frank Sargeson House, Takapuna
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"I didn't have a home with a hundred rooms,
and a French cook and a gardener with a beard, I had a little place to live
in. I had a mother who cooked for us, and she cooked nicely too, and my
father dug the garden in the weekends, and he planted pansies, and we had
cats and dogs and rabbits, and a mouse in the scullery and we had visitors
sometimes who swore, and I liked being alive and I didn't care twopence about
the past it was the present that mattered..."
(from The Lagoon & Other Stories, 1951)
56 Eden Street Oamaru
The former Frame family home at 56 Eden Street is now open
to the public every afternoon during the summer months, and at other times by
arrangement.
The family lived in the house from 1931 to 1943.
The House is cared for by the Janet
Frame Eden Street Trust
The bedroom
where the Frame sisters shared a bed.
Final Resting Place
Janet Frame requested that her ashes be buried in the
family grave at Oamaru, up on the hill overlooking the sea. She shares the
plot with her parents George and Lottie and her two sisters Myrtle and
Isabel.
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