Janet Todd
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Janet Margaret Todd (born September 10, 1942) is a prolific and well-respected author of many books on women in literature. She is currently the Herbert JC Grierson Professor of English Literature at the University of Aberdeen.
Janet Todd's research concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over a long career primarily in the US and the UK (most recently at Cambridge University, University of East Anglia, Glasgow University and University of Aberdeen) she has published and contributed to more than 38 books, mainly on women's writing, cultural history and the development of fiction. She also edited full scale editions of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Marilyn Butler) and Aphra Behn, as well as individual works of women such as Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton and Eliza Fenwick. She has recently acted as general editor for the Cambridge edition of Jane Austen, forthcoming in 2007.
[edit] Recent Publications
- Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict (London: Viking, 2003)
- Daughters of Ireland (New York: Ballantine Books, 2004)
- The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft (Penguin, 2003; Columbia University Press, 2004)
- Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000)
