The Writing of the Lagoon Stories

Frame was around 21 years old when she wrote the Lagoon stories, living in a boarding house in Caversham, Dunedin and working there as a nursemaid caring for some elderly residents. She had some months earlier spent a few weeks in Seacliff hospital, but her serious encounter with the hospital syste...

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Publicado no:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces,
Autor principal: Gordon, Pamela
Formato: Article ou chapitre numérique
Idioma:Anglais
Publicado em: Commonwealth Essays and Studies 2022
Acesso em linha:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Resumo:Frame was around 21 years old when she wrote the Lagoon stories, living in a boarding house in Caversham, Dunedin and working there as a nursemaid caring for some elderly residents. She had some months earlier spent a few weeks in Seacliff hospital, but her serious encounter with the hospital system was not to happen for nearly two more years, and it wasn’t initially at Seacliff, it was in Christchurch. The Lagoon stories except for one (“Swans”) were all written before Frame’s second sister...