Janet Todd

Feminist scholar and former president of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge Janet Todd is the biographer of Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft. Her recent books include the memoir Radiation Diaries and the fiction, A Man of Genius. Her forthcoming novel, Don’t You Know There’s a War On? will be published in Spring 2020.

The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Last
Novel, Sanditon

Fragment of a Seaside Romp

January 10, 2020 By Janet Todd

The First English Woman to Make a Living as a Writer Was Also a Spy

On Aphra Behn, Playwright and Punk-Poetess of the 17th Century

August 7, 2017 By Janet Todd

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