Janet Paul Explained

Dame Janet Elaine Paul (née Wilkinson; 9 November 1919 – 28 July 2004) was a New Zealand publisher, painter and art historian,[1] based in Wellington.[2]

She was married to Blackwood Paul and they had a bookselling and publishing business together. Their publishing house, Blackwood and Janet Paul, specialized 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,[3] and Hone Tuwhare's first collection of poetry No Ordinary Sun (1964). After her husband's death, she was courted by Denis Glover, one of the poets they published.[4] From 1971 to 1980, she was art librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington.[5]

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.[6] Their youngest daughter, Jane Paul, was also an artist and worked at the National Film Archive and then Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.[7]

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.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Farewell to some notable people. nzherald.co.nz . 2011 . Polymath is a word that applies to Dame Janet Paul, 84, who died after a rich, full life as publisher, painter and art historian. . 15 September 2011.
  2. Web site: Paul, Janet – Collections Online – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa . collections.tepapa.govt.nz . 2011 . 7 June 2011.
  3. Web site: https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22001033?search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject%5D%5B%5D=K%C4%81wanatanga&search%5Bi%5D%5Bsubject%5D%5B%5D=T%C4%81ngata+whenua&search%5Bpath%5D=items . 2024-08-12 . natlib.govt.nz.
  4. Denis Glover, 1912–1980 | NZETC . nzetc.org . 2011 . 7 . 3 . 10.26686/knznq.v7i3.716 . Having regained some of his former strength, he proceeded to lay siege to the affections of Janet Paul, the widow and business partner of his old friend Blackwood Paul (1908-65). Booksellers and publishers Blackwood and Janet Paul Ltd. had, by the mid 1960s, overtaken Caxton as New Zealand’s leading publishers of poetry, and in 1968 Janet had published Glover’s Sharp Edge Up: Verses and Satires. . 15 September 2011 . Shieff . Sarah . free .
  5. Book: Paul, Janet. Beyond expectations : fourteen New Zealand women write about their lives. Allen & Unwin/Port Nicholson Press. 1986. 0-86861-650-8. Clark. Margaret. Wellington, N.Z.. 3–19. Hints of becoming. 15278262.
  6. Web site: 2012-05-31 . Positivity from a dark history . 2024-08-12 . NZ Herald . en-NZ.
  7. Web site: Death of Nga Taonga's Jane Paul, after a sudden illness . 2024-08-12 . en.
  8. Web site: Queen's Birthday honours list 1997. 2 June 1997 . Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . 15 July 2020.

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