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name: Janet Todd
about: Janet Todd (Jan) is a novelist, biographer, literary critic and internationally renowned scholar, known for her work onwomen’s writing and feminism. Her most recent books include the novel: Don't You Know There's A War On?;edition and essay: Jane Austen’s Sanditon; memoir: Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memoryand Fragments of a Life in Words; biography: Aphra Behn: A Secret Life; the novel: A Man of Genius 2016. Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: An Illustrated Novel, forthcoming 2021A co-founder of the journal Women’s Writing, she has published biographies and critical work on many authors,including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, Mary (Shelley) and Fanny (Death And The Maidens) , and the Irish-Republican sympathiser, trav Janet Todd (Jan) is a novelist, biographer, literary critic and internationally renowned scholar, known for her work onwomen’s writing and feminism. Her most recent books include the novel: Don't You Know There's A War On?;edition and essay: Jane Austen’s Sanditon; memoir: Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memoryand Fragments of a Life in Words; biography: Aphra Behn: A Secret Life; the novel: A Man of Genius 2016. Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: An Illustrated Novel, forthcoming 2021A co-founder of the journal Women’s Writing, she has published biographies and critical work on many authors,including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, Mary (Shelley) and Fanny (Death And The Maidens) , and the Irish-Republican sympathiser, traveller and medical student, Lady Mount Cashell (Daughters of Ireland).Born in Wales, Janet Todd grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon/Sri Lanka and has worked at schools and universities in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US (Douglass College,Rutgers, Florida), Scotland (Glasgow, Aberdeen) and England (Cambridge, UEA). A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow ofNewnham College. ...more