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BookBlasts® | Top 10 Reads for Independent Minds | June 2018

1st June 201817th September 2018 janettodd_adminRadiation Diaries

Radiation diaries is one of BookBlast’s top 10 reads for June 2018 https://bookblast.com/blog/bookblasts-top-10-reads-for-independent-minds-june-2018/ Interview: https://bookblast.com/blog/interview-janet-todd-author/  

Janet Todd Interview with BookBlasts

28th May 201817th September 2018 janettodd_adminInterview

https://bookblast.com/blog/interview-janet-todd-author/

Janet joined Melvyn Bragg recently on In Our Time to discuss Aphra Behn

10th October 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

Janet formed part of the panel discussing Aphra Behn on 12 Oct on BBC Radio 4. You can listen to the Podcast here. Melvyn Bragg and guests, including Janet, discussed Aphra Behn (1640-1689), who made her name and her living as a playwright, poet and writer of fiction under the Restoration. Virginia Woolf wrote of her: […]

Book of Venetian artist

18th September 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddJanet Todd

I am delighted to have contributed an article on Geoffrey Humphries, who painted my official portrait for Lucy Cavendish College. The portrait is reproduced in this beautiful book.

Podcast of Talk Radio Europe interview now live

4th July 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

I was recently interviewed by the lovely folk at Talk Radio Europe. Why not listen the the podcast where I talk about the life of Aphra Behn: A Secret Life with their presenter and discuss her intriguing life story. Listen here.  

Janet Todd guest post in The HWA – Historia Magazine

26th June 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

Janet Todd is thrilled to be the guest post in June’s issue of The HWA – Historia Magazine talking about her life, Aphra Behn and women writers. Read the article in full to find out more.

BBC Cambridgeshire radio’s Jeremy Sallis interviews Janet on Aphra

26th June 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

Jeremy Sallis chatted to Janet at lunchtime on the 23rd June 2017 about the remarkable Aphra Behn. (Listen again to the interview – starts 0:22 – available for a limited time only)  

Aphra Behn: A Secret Life – the launch party

20th June 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

The launch party took place on the 13th June 2017 at Heffers Bookshop in Cambridge yesterday evening and was very well-received by all. Thanks to all those who came along and especially to Vicky Gilder, David Wightman, and Katherine Bright-Holmes for so much support and to Jane Monson for reading Aphra. #aphrabehn #booklaunch The book […]

Shiny New Books reviews Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

6th June 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddAphra Behn

“Janet Todd has combed the archives, explored all the possible options, and made connections based on probabilities in such a way that a credible picture emerges of the life and personality of this fascinating, talented woman.” Read the full review here.

Janet Todd to speak at Bradford Literature Festival

6th June 201717th September 2018 Janet ToddFestival

On Sunday July 2nd Janet Todd will be speaking at the Bradford Literature Festival. The panel, made up of historian, Carol Dyhouse, authors, Moni Mohsin and Janet Todd, will examine what it is about the character of Mr Darcy that has set the bar for heroic heartthrobs ever since. Why is it that this particular man […]

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Janet Todd

Janet Todd is a novelist and internationally renowned scholar, known especially for her biographies of women writers. She is an expert in her field in the long 18th century and has published books on Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Samuel Richardson and Aphra Behn. After working as an academic around the world, Janet now lives in Cambridge and Venice. Her most recent book is Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of A Life in Words, available in the UK now, and in the USA in October 2018.

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News

  • Radiation Diaries by Janet Todd January 15, 2019 by Lara Lillibridge

  • Book Launch: Aphra Behn – A Secret Life at Heffers

  • Times Literary Review #467 – Dreaded Diagnosis

  • Jenni Murray picks the best books about history’s forgotten women

  • BBC Radio London – Jo Good

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