Janet Todd

Janet Margaret Todd OBE ( born September 10, 1942) is a Wales -born non-fiction writer and professor who has become best known for her biographies of women in literary history.

Janet Todd has studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Florida. Your promotion is concerned with the poet John Clare. She teaches English literature at the University of Aberdeen and is "Honorary Fellow" of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, which she heads as director since September 1, 2008.

Janet Todd's research focus is on the literature and culture of the English Restoration and 18th and early 19th century. She is the author or co-author of more than 38 books and editor of Oeuvres by Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen and Aphra Behn. Among the biographies written by her include those about Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton, Eliza Fenwick and Fanny Imlay.

Recent Publications

  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Revolutionary Life. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 2000, ISBN 0-231-12184-9
  • The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Columbia University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-713-99600-5
  • Daughters of Ireland. Ballantine Books, New York 2004, ISBN 0-345-44763-8, in the U.S. as Rebel Daughters: Ireland published in Conflict
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-67469-0
  • Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. Profile Books, London; Counterpoint, Berkeley, 2007, ISBN 978-1-58243-339-4
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