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{{short description|New Zealand non-fiction writer (1947–2015)}}
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{{Infobox writer
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| name = Janet McCallum
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| birth_date = 1947
| death_date = {{Death year and age|2015|1947}}
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| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], India
| occupation = Non-fiction writer and journalist
| alma_mater = [[Victoria University of Wellington]] (MA)
| notable_works = {{plainlist}}
*''Women in the House'' (1993)
*''Women and their Words'' (2009)
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'''Janet Mary Candon McCallum''' (1947–2015) was a New Zealand non-fiction writer and journalist, best known for her books and articles about New Zealand women.

==Life and career==
McCallum was born in 1947 in [[Kolkata]] (then Calcutta) to British parents. Her family moved to New Zealand in 1948, where she grew up on a farm in the [[Wairarapa]] region and went to a Catholic boarding school in [[Wellington]].<ref name="Interview">{{cite web |title=Interview with Janet McCallum |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/35843549 |website=National Library of New Zealand |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> She graduated from [[Victoria University of Wellington]] with a bachelor's degree followed by a master's degree in French and Russian.<ref name="Read NZ">{{cite web |title=Janet McCallum |url=https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/mccallum-janet |website=[[Read NZ Te Pou Muramura]] |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref> She and her husband had three children.<ref name="Interview"/>

In the 1970s she published works relating to [[Māori culture]] including ''In Search of a Dialect: An explanatory study of the informal speech of some Maori and Pakeha children'' (1975) and ''He Pioke no Rangaunu: Exercises and Games for Practice in Maori'' (1975).<ref name="Read NZ"/>

Her first book, ''Women in the House'', was published in 1993, and provides biographical information about the 36 female members of [[New Zealand Parliament|Parliament in New Zealand]] who were elected from 1893 to 1993.<ref name="Read NZ"/> She had previously contributed essays and articles to ''Herstory Diary'' (1984), ''Women in Wartime'' (1986), ''Wilderness Women'' (1989), ''The Book of New Zealand Women'' (1991) and ''[[The Dictionary of New Zealand Biography]]''.<ref name="Read NZ"/>

In 1992 she was awarded the National Library Fellowship to research early women journalists in New Zealand.<ref name="Read NZ"/> She received a further $10,000 grant from the New Zealand History Research Trust in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |title=New Zealand History Research Trust recipients |url=https://mch.govt.nz/mi/funding-nz-culture/ministry-grants-awards/new-zealand-history-research-trust/new-zealand-history-res |website=Manatū Taonga – Ministry for Culture & Heritage |access-date=29 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Grants for historical research |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/grants-historical-research/docview/314410649/se-2? |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=The Evening Post |date=7 February 1996 |page=8}}</ref> This research work led to her second book, ''Women and their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism'', which was published in 2009.<ref name="Read NZ"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Price |first=Vicki |title=Women and Their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/books/docview/315318782/se-2? |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=Taranaki Daily News |date=14 November 2009 |page=10}}</ref> An ''[[Otago Daily Times]]'' review said McCallum had "delved deeply to deliver up the experiences of a great many would-be women journalists in New Zealand from the 1860s till the late 1940s", and concluded that the book would be "an inspiration to all present-day women reporters".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Isaacs |first1=Clarke |title=Early women writers an inspiration to aspiring journalists |url=https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/early-women-writers-inspiration-aspiring-journalists |access-date=29 August 2023 |work=Otago Daily Times |date=8 August 2009 |language=en}}</ref> A review in ''[[Northern Advocate]]'' concluded "McCallum did exhaustive research for this book, and the reader is rewarded for it".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barrow |first1=Graeme |title=Pioneers in print industry |url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/women-their-words-janet-mccallum-fraser-books-35/docview/432354918/se-2? |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=Northern Advocate |date=25 July 2009 |page=A19}}</ref>

McCallum died in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |title=McCallum, Janet Mary Candon, 1947–2015 |url=https://natlib.govt.nz/records/22484637 |publisher=[[National Library of New Zealand]] |access-date=30 August 2023}}</ref>

==Selected works==
* ''Women in the House'' (Cape Catley, 1993)
* ''Women and their Words: Notable Pioneers in New Zealand Journalism'' (Fraser Books, 2009)

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://www.read-nz.org/writers-files/writer/mccallum-janet Profile] on [[Read NZ Te Pou Muramura]] website

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[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]
[[Category:People from the Wairarapa]]
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[[Category:20th-century New Zealand historians]]
[[Category:20th-century New Zealand non-fiction writers]]
[[Category:20th-century New Zealand journalists]]
[[Category:21st-century New Zealand women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century New Zealand historians]]
[[Category:21st-century New Zealand non-fiction writers]]
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[[Category:New Zealand women historians]]
[[Category:New Zealand women journalists‎]]
[[Category:Victoria University of Wellington alumni]]

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