Review by Judith Baragwanath A MAN OF GENIUS JANET TODD (NEWSOUTH BOOKS, $34.99) Ann St Clair is a novelist living in Regency England. She writes “Gothic pap” and is a bit of a restless soul. One night, she meets another writer, Robert James, at a dinner party and everything changes. He’s an oddball, but highly amusing […]
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Bloggers’ reviews of A Man of Genius
Literary bloggers The Emerald City Book Review- June 3 2016 What happens when an eminent scholar and biographer turns her hand to fiction? In the case of Janet Todd’s A Man of Genius, we get a highly distinctive, engrossing tale of mystery and madness, centering on a woman writer of one of those “horrid books” that […]
Library Journal review of A Man of Genius
*Library Journal – May 26 When Ann St. Clair, a writer of gothic novels, first meets Robert James at a literary gathering, she, like all his Grub Street friends, is awed by his brilliance. Her admiration deepens into something much more powerful and intimate, but as the couple flee to post-Napoleonic Europe in search of […]
Shiny New Books review of A Man of Genius
Harriet Devine, Shiny New Books Anyone who’s studied, or taken an interest in, women writers of the 18th and 19th centuries will have encountered the work of Janet Todd. She has written biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley, and edited and written on the works of Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and many others. A Man of Genius is […]
Emerald City Book Review – A Man of Genius
What happens when an eminent scholar and biographer turns her hand to fiction? In the case of Janet Todd’s A Man of Genius, we get a highly distinctive, engrossing tale of mystery and madness, centering on a woman writer of one of those “horrid books” that were so popular around Jane Austen’s time. In Todd’s novel, […]
The Historical Review – A Man of Genius
By Historical Novel Society In 1816 London, Ann St. Clair supports herself by writing gothic horror novels. Her cold, cruel mother had rejected her as a child, and her father had died before her birth. Remaining a spinster, Ann surrounds herself with other artistic types. The long war with France is over, Napoleon defeated, and […]
Review of A MAN OF GENIUS by Shelley DeWees
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Trbute review of A Man of Genius
Tribune http://www.tribunemagazine.org/2016/04/venetian-mystery-of-a-womans-past/ Fiction Venetian Mystery of a Woman’s Past A MAN OF GENIUS by Janet Todd Bitter Lemon Press £16.99 The dark side of Venice has always attracted authors, both Italian and international, contrasting the city’s decadenceand glory with the hidden underbelly of much of its native population. Locating much of her 19th century story […]