56 Eden Street, Oamaru, was once the home of Janet Frame, the famous New Zealand author.
The Janet Frame House has been restored and is opened in the summer months for visitors to experience. It is a pretty, uncomplicated building, filled with charm and crocheted bedspreads and rag rugs, a sewing machine and a typewriter, wallpapers and linoleum floors. Uncluttered, it feels comfortable, a place where time and space allows thoughts to flow freely. although it must have been different when the author’s family (five children, mum, dad and various pets) lived there. Janet was involved at the beginning of the restoration project, although she was bemused by the idea apparently!
Janet Frame became one of New Zealand’s most well-known writers after The Lagoon, a collection of her short stories, was published. She had been hospitalised and was going to have brain surgery to cure her of a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia, but the publication of her writing made doctors realise their mistake and the fact that she did not belong in hospital. From then her career as an author began to grow to international fame. You can read about Janet Frame here.
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https://janetframe.org.nz/index.php/biography
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