Janet Paul

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

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,[4] and Hone Tuwhare's first collection of poetry No Ordinary Sun (1964).

Their third daughter, Mary Paul is retired scholar of New Zealand literature, particularly the work of Robin Hyde.

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

[8] 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.