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Born 10 September 1942 (age 82) Wales ( 1942-09-10 ) Institutions Rutgers UniversityCambridge UniversityUniversity of East AngliaGlasgow UniversityUniversity of Aberdeen Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, US & Canada Books Jane Austen in Context, The Secret Life of Aphra Be, Jane Austen: Her Life, Mary Wollstonecraft, The Sign of Angellica: Women Similar People | ||
Interview with professor janet todd
Janet Margaret Todd (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and their circles.
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- Interview with professor janet todd
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- Academic career
- Author
- Honours
- Selected publications
- References
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Academic career
She has worked in universities in Ghana (Cape Coast), Puerto Rico (Mayaguez), North America (New Brunswick), India (New Delhi), England (Norwich).
She was appointed professor of English Literature at Glasgow University in 2000, and was then at Aberdeen University from 2004 until she took up in 2008 the post of president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from which she retired in 2015. She is now a full-time novelist and researcher living in Cambridge.
Author
Todd's writing concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over a long career she has published more than 35 critical and biographical books and collections of essays, mainly on women authors, women's writing, cultural history and the development of fiction. She has edited full scale editions of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Marilyn Butler) and Aphra Behn, as well as individual works of women such as Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton and Eliza Fenwick.
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 and author of the Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. 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 The Secret Life of Aphra Behn and published two novels, A Man of Genius , and an Austen spinoff, Lady Susan Plays the Game.
Honours
In the 2013 New Year Honours, Todd was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) "for services to higher education and literary scholarship".