Research Catalog

Title

Janet Frame's kingdom by the sea--Oamaru / Sheila Leaver-Cooper ; photographs by Ian S. Smith.

Author

Leaver-Cooper, Sheila.

Publication

Canterbury, N.Z. : Lincoln University Press with Daphne Brasell Associates, 1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Smith, Ian S.

Description

72 p. : ill., map; 19 x 25 cm.

Summary

"Throughout this book I have tried to differentiate between fact and fiction, referring first to the real places Janet Frame describes in her autobiographies and then to the scenes she has created in her novels and short stories"--Introd.

Alternative Title

Kingdom by the sea

Subject

• Frame, Janet > Homes and haunts > Oamaru > Pictorial works
• Women authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Authors, New Zealand > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Oamaru (N.Z.) > History > Pictorial works
• Oamaru (N.Z.) > Intellectual life > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Oamaru (N.Z.) > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Biographies – Pictorial works
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 71).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Forewords / Duncan Taylor, Jeanette Aker -- Introduction -- 1. 56 Eden Street and environs (56 Eden Street ; The back garden ; The clay bank ; The creek ; The zigzag ; The tip ; The plantations ; The reservoir) -- 2. Oamaru North School and the ways to get there (Oamaru North School ; Mrs Feathers' shop ; Beyond Eden Street ; The Reed Street route and St. Patrick's Basilica ; The Aln Street route ; The Thames Street route and Boer War memorial ; The circuitous route: the Church of Christ and railway station) -- 3. Central Oamaru: Thames Street (The former post offices ; Robertson's hardware building; Adams' bookshop ; Begg's music shop ; The Athenaeum ; The court house ; The opera house ; The Majestic theatre ; Waitaki County) -- 4. Waitaki Girls' High School (Junior high school ; Uniform ; Senior building ; Miss J. B. Wilson ; Teachers ; Waitaki House ; Park House ; The 'girls at school' ; The old assembly hall ; Isobel Clark eassy competition ; The gymnasium ; Gibson House)
• 5. Willowglen (The house ; The grounds ; The railway embankment ; Willowglen in fiction ; The old mill) -- 6. From Willowglen to central Oamaru (Chelmer Street ; Oamar Public Hospital ; The camping grounds ; Oamaru Public Gardens ; The RSA clubrooms and Garden of Memories ; The baths ; The Middle School ; The police station ; Takaro Park ; The banks) -- 7. Oamaru's harbourside (Gateway to the Victorian twon ; Harbour and Tyne Streets ; Oamuaru Harbour ; Friendly bay ; Whitestone Lodge) -- 8. North Oamaru (The woollen mills ; The sweet factory ; Waitaki Boys' High Schjool and the Anzac Day service ; Iona Home and Hospital for the Aged ; The freezing works ; Halfway between the Equator and the South Pole ; Waitaki River) -- 9. Finale -- Appendix 1: Janet Frame: a portrait / J. W. Gibson -- Appendix 2: Timeline of Janet Frame's literary achievements -- Appendix 3: Works by Janet Frame: editions cited.

ISBN

090904905X

LCCN

^^^98142709^

OCLC

• 41070351
• SCSB-10514048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library