Janet Todd
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Janet Todd OBE | |
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President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge[1] | |
In office October 2008 – October 2015 | |
Preceded by | Dame Veronica Sutherland |
Succeeded by | Jackie Ashley |
Personal details | |
Born | Janet Margaret Todd 10 September 1942 |
Children | Julian Todd Clara Todd |
Alma mater | Newnham College, Cambridge; University of Florida |
Occupation | Scholar of women in literature |
Janet Margaret Todd
Career
Academic career
She has worked in universities in Ghana (Cape Coast), Puerto Rico (Mayaguez), North America (New Brunswick), India (New Delhi), England (Norwich).[citation needed]
She was appointed professor of English Literature at
Author
Todd's writing concerns literature and culture of the
She is the General Editor of the nine-volume The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, editor of the volume Jane Austen in Context, and co-editing Persuasion and Later Manuscripts[5] and author of the Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen.[6] In the US she started the first journal devoted to women writers and more recently in the UK she has been the co-founder with Marie Mulvey-Roberts of Women's Writing.
Since retirement, she has revised her biography of Aphra Behn, Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, and published four novels: A Man of Genius, Don't You Know There's a War On?, Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden, and an Austen spin-off, Lady Susan Plays the Game.[7] In 2018, she published Radiation Diaries, her account of a month of cancer treatment, a frank, witty and scholarly memoir, and, in 2019, a revised, colour-illustrated edition of Jane Austen's unfinished work, Jane Austen's Sanditon with an Essay by Janet Todd.
Honours
In the
Selected publications
- Secret Life of Aphra Behn. André Deutsch. 1996. ISBN 0-8135-2455-5.
- Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2000. ISBN 0-231-12184-9.
- The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Columbia University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-7139-9600-5.
- Daughters of Ireland. New York: Ballantine Books. 2004. ISBN 0-345-44763-8. (published as Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict in the US)
- The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-67469-0.
- Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. London: Profile Books;Berkeley: Counterpoint. 2007. ISBN 978-1-58243-339-4.
- Later Manuscripts of Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-84348-5. Edited with Linda Bree
- A Man of Genius, Bitter Lemon Press. 2016. ISBN 9781908524591
- Aphra Behn: A Secret Life. Fentum Press. 16 May 2017. ISBN 9781909572065.
- Radiation Diaries. Fentum Press. 2018. ISBN 978-1909572171
- Jane Austen's Sanditon with an Essay by Janet Todd. Fentum Press. 2019. ISBN 978-1909572218
- Don't You Know There's a War On?. Fentum Press. 2020. ISBN 978-1909572201
- Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden. Fentum Press. 2021. ISBN 978-1909572287
References
- ^ "List of Honorary Fellows Lucy Cavendish College". Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ Sutherland, John (21 March 2006). "Interview: Janet Todd". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 March 2012.
- ^ "The University of Glasgow Story". Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ Profile at the University of Aberdeen
- ^ The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Cambridge University Press.
- ^ Todd, Janet (2006). Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge University Press.
- Bloomsbury Press.
- ^ "No. 60367". The London Gazette (Supplement). 29 December 2012. p. 14.
- ^ "New Year Honours List 2013 – General List" (PDF). Cabinet Office. Retrieved 29 December 2012.