Janet Paul
1919–2004
(Person)
Also known as: Janet Elaine Wilkinson.
Artist, art historian, and publisher.
Genealogy
Spouses: David Blackwood Paul
Mentioned in
- A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
- Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947
- Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number One
- Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’
- Nineteenth Century New Zealand Artists: A Guide & Handbook
- Recollecting Mansfield
- The Farthest Promised Land — English Villagers, New Zealand Immigrants of the 1870s
- The Life of Captain James Cook
Cited in
- A Life of J. C. Beaglehole: New Zealand Scholar
- Book & Print in New Zealand : A Guide to Print Culture in Aotearoa
Image Gallery
.jpg "Janet Wilkinson, 1944")
![This unsigned watercolour [Woman and child] by Joseph Jenner Merrett is the first known record of a Māori woman reading. It was painted between 1841 and 1843 and is one of the works in the album presented to Eliza Hobson (Governor Hobson's widow) when she left New Zealand in 1843. The original album, in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, was reproduced in 1990 as Mrs Hobson's Album (Auckland University Press in association with the Library) with commentary and catalogue by Elsie Locke and (now Dame) Janet Paul. This painting is printed as Plate 12 in the reproduction, with catalogue notes on p.122.(Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ, reference number F-21814-1/2)](/etexts/GriBook/GriBo023(h280).jpg "This unsigned watercolour [Woman and child] by Joseph Jenner Merrett is the first known record of a Māori woman reading. It was painted between 1841 and 1843 and is one of the works in the album presented to Eliza Hobson (Governor Hobson's widow) when she left New Zealand in 1843. The original album, in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library, was reproduced in 1990 as Mrs Hobson's Album (Auckland University Press in association with the Library) with commentary and catalogue by Elsie Locke and (now Dame) Janet Paul. This painting is printed as Plate 12 in the reproduction, with catalogue notes on p.122.(Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, NZ, reference number F-21814-1/2)")
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Other Collections
The following collections may have holdings relevant to "Janet Paul":
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, which has entries for many prominent New Zealanders.
- Archives New Zealand, which has collections of maps, plans and posters; immigration passenger lists; and probate records.
- National Library of New Zealand, which has extensive collections of published material.
- Auckland War Memorial Museum, which has extensive holdings on the Auckland region and New Zealand military history.
- Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which has strong holdings in Tāonga Māori, biological holotypes and New Zealand art.
- nzhistory.net.nz, from the History Group of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage.
