Janet Todd

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

Janet Todd studied at the University of Cambridge and the University of Florida . Her doctorate deals with the poet John Clare . She teaches English literature at the University of Aberdeen and is an Honorary Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College , Cambridge, which she has been Head of since September 1, 2008.

Janet Todd's main research interests are the literature and culture of the English Restoration and the 18th and early 19th centuries. She is the author or co-author of more than 38 books and editor of the complete works of Mary Wollstonecraft , Jane Austen and Aphra Behn . Her biographies include those of Helen Maria Williams , Mary Shelley , Mary Carleton , Eliza Fenwick and Fanny Imlay .

Publications (selection)

• (Ed.): Dictionary of British women writers . London: Routledge, 1989 ISBN 0-415-03625-9
• with Marilyn Butler [Ed.]: The Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (1989)
• 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 US as Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict published
• 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

Web links

• Janet Todd at the University of Aberdeen
• Janet Todd at UF
• List of publications
• John Sutherland: A Novel Mission . In: The Guardian , March 21, 2006