Janet Todd

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name = Janet Todd

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birth_date = September 10, 1942
birth_place = Wales
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education = University of Florida
Oxford University
occupation = Author of women's literature
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Janet Margaret Todd (born September 10, 1942) is a Welsh-born academic and a well-respected author of many books on women in literature. Todd was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. [http://education.guardian.co.uk/academicexperts/story/0,,1735265,00.html] She is currently the Herbert JC Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen and is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. On September 1, 2008, Professor Todd took up the post of President of Lucy Cavendish College. She is the seventh President of the College.

Janet Todd's research concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over a long career, primarily in the US and the UK at Cambridge University, University of East Anglia, Glasgow University and University of Aberdeen, she has published and contributed to more than 38 books, mainly on women's writing, cultural history and the development of fiction. She also edited full scale editions of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Marilyn Butler) and Aphra Behn, as well as individual works of women such as Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton and Eliza Fenwick. She has recently acted as general editor for the Cambridge edition of Jane Austen, forthcoming in 2007.

Recent publications

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title = Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life
publisher = London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
date = 2000
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isbn = 0-231-12184-9:This biography of Mary Wollstonecraft argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy. Her story was extraordinarily scandalous in conventional terms, yet in her own terms always principled and highly moral.

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title = The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
publisher = Columbia University Press
date = 2004
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isbn = 0-713-99600-5:This volume contains the collection of all known correspondence of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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title = Daughters of Ireland
publisher = New York: Ballantine Books
date = 2004
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isbn = 0-345-44763-8 (published as "Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict" in the USA):This is a biography of Margaret King and Mary King daughters of Robert Lord Kingsborough, later Earl of Kingston, of Mitchelstown Castle during the time of Irish rebellion. The radical Mary Wollstonecraft was hired as their governess.

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title = The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen
publisher = Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
date = 2006
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isbn = 978-0-521-67469-7:An introduction to Jane Austen, her works and literary influences, including a summary of the literary criticism to date for each of her six published novels

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title = Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle
publisher = London: Profile Books;Berkeley: Counterpoint
date = 2007
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isbn = 978-1-58243-339-4:A biography of the Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and sister of Mary Shelley, whose own infatuation with Percy Bysshe Shelley took a backseat when her sister eloped with the poet and who tragically ended her life at the age of 22.

External links

* [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/english/staff/details.php?id=j.todd Janet Todd at the University of Aberdeen]
* [http://education.guardian.co.uk/academicexperts/story/0,,1735265,00.html Janet Todd at UF]
* [http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLl/EngLit/pubs/todd.htm List of publications]
* [http://education.guardian.co.uk/academicexperts/story/0,,1735265,00.html Sutherland, John "A Novel Mission", "The Guardian", 21 March 2006]