Wouldn’t you like to be normal? Janet Frame’s Place
Lucie Elven, 8 May 2025
Janet Frame didn’t like people writing about her. When they asked for interviews, she described them as ‘Porlock people’ (one biographer reported being ‘vigorously and efficiently rebuffed’). She believed she should be entitled to a private life, so she legally changed her name to Nene Janet Paterson Clutha – in honour of a Māori chief and the Clutha...