Janet Todd
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Janet Todd OBE |
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| President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge | |
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In office October 2008 – October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Dame Veronica Sutherland |
| Succeeded by | Jackie Ashley |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Janet Margaret Todd 10 September 1942 |
| Children | Julian Todd and Clara Todd |
| Alma mater |
Newnham College, Cambridge; University of Florida |
| Occupation | Scholar of women in literature |
Janet Margaret Todd (born 10 September 1942) is a British academic and author. She was educated at Cambridge University and the University of Florida, where she undertook a doctorate on the poet John Clare. Much of her work concerns Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, and their circles.
She has worked in universities in Ghana (Cape Coast), Puerto Rico (Mayaguez), North America (New Brunswick), India (New Delhi), England (Norwich).
She was appointed professor of English Literature at Glasgow University in 2000, and 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.
Todd's writing concerns literature and culture of the Restoration and eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over a long career she has published more than 35 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.
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