Janet Paul
Illustration — Tinakore Village artist plaque Dame Janet Elaine Paul DNZM (née Wilkinson; 9 November 1919 – 28 July 2004) was a New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian, based in Wellington. She was married to Blackwood Paul and they had a bookselling and publishing business together. Their publishing house, Blackwood and Janet Paul, specialised in New Zealand literature and society, publishing important works such as The Maori People in the Nineteen Sixties (1968), which included essays by eminent Māori scholars Bruce Biggs and Pei Te Hurinui Jones, and Hone Tuwhare's first collection of poetry No Ordinary Sun (1964).
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Janet Paul
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- Born
- 1919
- Died
- 2004
- Nationality
- New Zealand
- Occupation
- painter · librarian · publisher
- Honours
- Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit · honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington
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Illustration — Tinakore Village artist plaque Dame Janet Elaine Paul DNZM (née Wilkinson; 9 November 1919 – 28 July 2004) was a New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian, based in Wellington. She was married to Blackwood Paul and they had a bookselling and publishing business together. Their publishing house, Blackwood and Janet Paul, specialised in New Zealand literature and society, publishing important works such as The Maori People in the Nineteen Sixties (1968), which included essays by eminent Māori scholars Bruce Biggs and Pei Te Hurinui Jones, and Hone Tuwhare's first collection of poetry No Ordinary Sun (1964).
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After her husband's death, she was courted by Denis Glover, one of the poets they published. From 1971 to 1980, she was art librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington. Janet and Blackwood Paul had four daughters. Their eldest daughter, Joanna Margaret Paul, became a well-known New Zealand artist, poet, publisher and film-maker, while their second daughter, Charlotte Paul, is a doctor, epidemiologist and emeritus professor at the University of Otago. Their third daughter, Mary Paul is retired scholar of New Zealand literature, particularly the work of Robin Hyde. Their youngest daughter, Jane Paul, was also an artist and worked at the National Film Archive and then Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. In the 1997 Queen's Birthday Honours, Paul was appointed a Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to publishing, writing and painting.
Work by Janet Paul is recorded in the collections of Auckland Art Gallery and Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Distinctions recorded are Dame Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit and honorary doctor of Victoria University of Wellington.
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- 1.Farewell to some notable people. nzherald.co.nz. 2011.
- 2.Paul, Janet – Collections Online – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. collections.tepapa.govt.nz. 2011.
- 3.The Māori people in the nineteen-sixties : a symposium / edited by Erik Schwimmer; with the co-operation of John Forster, William Parker and James E. Ritchie. natlib.govt.nz.
- 4.Shieff, Sarah. Denis Glover, 1912–1980 | NZETC. nzetc.org. 7. 3. 2011. 10.26686/knznq.v7i3.716.
- 5.Paul, Janet. Beyond expectations : fourteen New Zealand women write about their lives. Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press. 3–19. 1986. 0-86861-650-8.
- 6.Positivity from a dark history. NZ Herald. 2012-05-31.
- 7.Death of Nga Taonga's Jane Paul, after a sudden illness.
- 8.Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Queen's Birthday honours list 1997. 2 June 1997.
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