Janet Frame's Kingdom by the Sea: Oamaru By Sheila Leaver-Cooper

Owen Marshall has described Janet Frame as 'New Zealand's most important living writer'. In her autobiography she describes Oamaru as her 'kingdom by the sea'. This book is a guide to that kingdom by the sea - as it was during Janet Frame's childhood and teenage years and as it is today. Sheila Leaver-Cooper's text and Ian S Smith's photographs provide a delightful record of the writer's environs, mediating between the real Oamaru and the Oamaru of Janet Frame's literary imagination.

CONTENTS

Introduction

56 Eden Street and environs

Oamaru North School and the ways to get there

Central Oamaru-Thames Street

Waitaki Girls' High School

Willowglen

From Willowglen to Central Oamaru

Oamaru's harbourside

North Oamaru

Finale

Appendix 1: Janet Frame - A portrait - J W Gibson

Appendix II: Timeline of Janet Frame's literary achievements

Appendix III: Works by Janet Frame: editions cited

Bibliography