An Angel at My Table (book)

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"An Angel at My Table" is an autobiographical work by New Zealand author Janet Frame, chronicling her difficult childhood, misdiagnosed mental illness, and eventual emergence as a celebrated writer.

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instanceOf autobiography
book
adaptationDirector Jane Campion NERFINISHED
adaptationFormat feature film
television miniseries
author Janet Frame NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin New Zealand
describes Janet Frame’s development as a writer
Janet Frame’s difficult childhood
Janet Frame’s emergence as a celebrated author
electroconvulsive therapy
life in psychiatric institutions
misdiagnosed mental illness
threat of lobotomy
followedBy The Envoy from Mirror City NERFINISHED
follows To the Is-Land NERFINISHED
genre autobiography
memoir
hasAdaptation An Angel at My Table (film) NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced New Zealand autobiographical writing
representations of mental illness in literature
hasPerspective first-person narrative
language English
literaryPeriod 20th-century literature
mainSubject Janet Frame NERFINISHED
childhood
mental illness
writing career
narrativeLocation New Zealand NERFINISHED
notableFor insight into New Zealand literary culture
portrayal of psychiatric misdiagnosis
partOf Janet Frame autobiography trilogy NERFINISHED
publicationPeriod 1980s
publisher Women’s Press NERFINISHED
setting mid-20th-century New Zealand
theme creativity and art
family relationships
identity
institutionalization
madness and sanity
resilience
social stigma

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