Janet Frame (1924–2004)

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1. Janet Frame

   Author of An Angel at My Table, Janet Frame : the complete autobiography, You Are Now Entering the Human Heart

2. Patrick White

   Author of Riders in the Chariot, A Fringe of Leaves, The Eye of the Storm

3. Maurice Gee

   Author of Under the Mountain, In My Father's Den, Blindsight

4. Elizabeth Bowen

   Author of The Death of the Heart, The Heat of the Day, The Last September

5. Christina Stead

   Author of The Man who Loved Children, For Love Alone, Letty Fox: Her Luck

6. Rebecca West

   Author of The Return of the Soldier, The Fountain Overflows, The Birds Fall Down

7. Barbara Pym

   Author of A Glass of Blessings, Less Than Angels, A Few Green Leaves

8. Muriel Spark

   Author of Memento Mori, A Far Cry from Kensington, Loitering with Intent

9. Elizabeth Taylor

   Author of Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont, Angel, In a Summer Season

10. Michael King

    Author of The Penguin History of New Zealand, Wrestling with the Angel: A Life of Janet Frame, Being Pakeha

11. Virginia Woolf

    Author of Jacob's Room, The Voyage Out, Between the acts

12. Peter Carey

    Author of Oscar and Lucinda, Illywhacker, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith

13. Edna O'Brien

    Author of The Country Girls, Girl with Green Eyes, Mrs. Reinhardt (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks)

14. Katherine Mansfield

    Author of The Garden Party and Other Stories, Bliss and Other Stories, The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield (Wordsworth Classics)

15. Doris Lessing

    Author of The Good Terrorist, The Diaries of Jane Somers, The Pit (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks)

16. Fanny Burney

    Author of Cecilia, Camilla

17. Margaret Drabble

    Author of The Red Queen, The Radiant Way, The Millstone

18. Vera Brittain

    Author of Testament of Youth, Testament of Friendship, Testament of Experience

19. Antonia White

    Author of Frost in May, The Lost Traveller, Beyond the Glass

20. Rosamond Lehmann

    Author of The Weather in the Streets, Invitation to the Waltz, The Echoing Grove