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Janet Todd
Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942), née Dakin, is a British academic and author. Much of her work concerns Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and their circles.
Janet Dakin was educated from 1961 at Newnham College, Cambridge. She then taught at Mfantsipim School and the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana. She married the American mathematician Aaron R. Todd, who had been teaching in Ghana in the Peace Corps, in her native Wales in 1966.
Janet and Aaron Todd then both took MSc courses at the University of Leeds, Janet's being in Linguistics. Janet Todd undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare at the University of Florida, completed in 1971. Aaron Todd completed a mathematics doctorate there in 1972. He was subsequently in the mathematics department of Baruch College. The couple had a son and a daughter, and were divorced in 1984.
Todd then worked at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, from 1972 to 1974; and then at Rutgers University 1974 to 1983, where she became a full professor, with three periods away as a visiting professor. She was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1983 to 1900.
From 1990 to 2000 Todd was professor at the University of East Anglia. She was appointed professor of English Literature at Glasgow University in 2000.
Todd was then at Aberdeen University from 2004 until she took up in 2008 the post of president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from which she retired in 2015. She is now a full-time novelist and researcher living in Cambridge. She is an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Todd's writing concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and 18th and early 19th centuries. Over a long career, she has published more than 40 critical and biographical books and collections of essays, mainly on women authors, women's writing, cultural history and the development of fiction. She has edited full-scale editions of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Marilyn Butler) and Aphra Behn, as well as individual works of women such as Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton and Eliza Fenwick.
She is the General Editor of the nine-volume The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, editor of the volume Jane Austen in Context, and co-editing Persuasion and Later Manuscripts and author of the Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. In the US she started the first journal devoted to women writers and more recently in the UK she has been the co-founder with Marie Mulvey-Roberts of Women's Writing.
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Janet Todd
Janet Margaret Todd OBE (born 10 September 1942), née Dakin, is a British academic and author. Much of her work concerns Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and their circles.
Janet Dakin was educated from 1961 at Newnham College, Cambridge. She then taught at Mfantsipim School and the University of Cape Coast, in Ghana. She married the American mathematician Aaron R. Todd, who had been teaching in Ghana in the Peace Corps, in her native Wales in 1966.
Janet and Aaron Todd then both took MSc courses at the University of Leeds, Janet's being in Linguistics. Janet Todd undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare at the University of Florida, completed in 1971. Aaron Todd completed a mathematics doctorate there in 1972. He was subsequently in the mathematics department of Baruch College. The couple had a son and a daughter, and were divorced in 1984.
Todd then worked at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, from 1972 to 1974; and then at Rutgers University 1974 to 1983, where she became a full professor, with three periods away as a visiting professor. She was a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge from 1983 to 1900.
From 1990 to 2000 Todd was professor at the University of East Anglia. She was appointed professor of English Literature at Glasgow University in 2000.
Todd was then at Aberdeen University from 2004 until she took up in 2008 the post of president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, from which she retired in 2015. She is now a full-time novelist and researcher living in Cambridge. She is an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge.
Todd's writing concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and 18th and early 19th centuries. Over a long career, she has published more than 40 critical and biographical books and collections of essays, mainly on women authors, women's writing, cultural history and the development of fiction. She has edited full-scale editions of Mary Wollstonecraft (with Marilyn Butler) and Aphra Behn, as well as individual works of women such as Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams, Mary Shelley, Mary Carleton and Eliza Fenwick.
She is the General Editor of the nine-volume The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen, editor of the volume Jane Austen in Context, and co-editing Persuasion and Later Manuscripts and author of the Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. In the US she started the first journal devoted to women writers and more recently in the UK she has been the co-founder with Marie Mulvey-Roberts of Women's Writing.