Stellar actress Miriam Margolyes (Harry Potter, The Age of Innocence, Blackadder) reads from and discusses the latest novel by her old friend, world-renowned Cambridge academic and literary biographer Janet Todd. In Don’t You Know There’s a War On? Janet addresses social change, imperial decline and class anxiety in post-war Britain from the perspective of a thorny and claustrophobic […]
Author: Janet Todd
Book Launch: Don’t You Know There’s a War On?
Join Janet Todd at Heffers in Cambridge UK for a party to celebrate publication of her new novel, Don’t You Know There’s a War On?
The Restless Comedy of Jane Austen’s Unfinished Last Novel, Sanditon
Fragment of a Seaside Romp By Janet Todd Reprinted from Literary Hub via FENTUM PRESS January 10, 2020 Was there ever a fragment like Jane Austen’s Sanditon? The distinguished novelist suffering a long decline—her brother Henry alleged that “the symptoms of a decay, deep and incurable, began to show themselves in the commencement of 1816″—used her last months […]
Talk: Sickness and Salt Water in Jane Austen’s Sanditon
SICKNESS AND SALT WATER IN JANE AUSTEN’S SANDITON Talk Saturday 19 October: 3:00pm – 4:00pmNewnham College, Old Labs, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, UK. Read more on Facebook Page
Review of Jane Austen’s Sanditon
Published on 23 September 2019 by Laurel Ann Nattress in Austen Prose Sanditon, Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel is in the news. A new TV adaptation and continuation of the same name premiered in the UK on ITV on August 25, 2019. The new eight-part series was written by Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice 1995) and will be […]
Radiation Diaries by Janet Todd January 15, 2019 by Lara Lillibridge
Janet Todd is an academic and novelist, known for her biographies of feminist writers as well as several novels. Todd was born in Wales and grew up in Bermuda, Sri Lanka, England, and Scotland. As an adult she worked in Ghana, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. before returning to Britain. She is a Professor Emerita at […]
Book Launch: Aphra Behn – A Secret Life at Heffers
Book launch: ‘Aphra Behn – A Secret Life’ by Janet Todd Tuesday 13th June 2017 At 6.30pm on Tuesday 13th June, join Janet Todd at Heffers as she celebrates the launch of her book, Aphra Behn – A Secret Life; an account of the life, work and history of the seventeenth century dramatist, poet of […]
Times Literary Review #467 – Dreaded Diagnosis
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Jenni Murray picks the best books about history’s forgotten women
Janet Todd’s Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life features on the list, from Jenni’s book A History of the World in 21 Women. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/sep/10/jenni-murray-picks-the-best-books-about-historys-forgotten-women
BBC Radio London – Jo Good
Jo Good talks to Janet Todd about writing and publishing Radiation Diaries, about rote learning and poetry that sticks in the mind, and about taboo subjects of the body and health 10 September 2018 https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06hpz53