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Janet Todd

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in Wales, The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies, Historical Fiction

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Jane Austen (!), Muriel Spark, Flannery O'Connor ...more

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Janet Todd (Jan) is a novelist, biographer, literary critic and internationally renowned scholar, known for her work on
women’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, Memory
and 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 2021

A 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 ...more

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	Death and the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle 3.90 avg rating — 173 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen: Her Life, Her Times, Her Novels 4.26 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Life of Aphra Behn 4.01 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1997 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Jane Austen Treasury: A Collection of Fascinating Insights into Her Life, Her Time and Her Novels 3.56 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2017	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen in Context 3.95 avg rating — 95 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd by Janet Todd (Goodreads Author), Jane Austen 4.19 avg rating — 81 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mary Wollstonecraft 3.64 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1976 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Man of Genius 3.29 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 2016 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen 3.64 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2006 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: An Illustrated Novel 3.19 avg rating — 47 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“That is --- we think differently, we now and then see things differently...--- Those who tell their own story you know must be listened to with caution.---”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

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“We are sent into this world to be as extensively useful as possible, and, where some degree of strength of mind is given, it is not a feeble body which will excuse us --- or incline us to excuse ourselves. --- The world is pretty much divided between the weak of mind and the strong --- between those who can act and those who cannot --- and it is the bounden duty of the capable to let no opportunity of being useful escape them. --- My sister's complaints and mine are happily not often of a nature to threaten existence immediately --- and as long as we can exert ourselves to be of use to others, I am convinced that the body is the better for the refreshment the mind receives in doing its duty. --- While I have been travelling , with this object in view, I have been perfectly well.”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

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“Your sisters know what they are about, I dare say, but their measures seem to touch on extremes. I feel that, in any illness, I should be so anxious for professional advice, so very little venturesome for myself, or anybody I loved! But, then, we have been so healthy a family that I can be no judge of what the of self-doctoring may do.”
― Janet Todd, Jane Austen's Sanditon: With an Essay by Janet Todd

tags: hypochondria, jane-austen, sanditon

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