Janet Todd (Jan) is a novelist, biographer, literary critic and internationally renowned scholar, known for her work on women’s writing and feminism. Her most recent books include the novel: Don't You Know There's A War On?; edition and essay: Jane Austen’s Sanditon; memoir: Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words; biography: Aphra Behn: A Secret Life; the novel: A Man of Genius 2016. Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: An Illustrated Novel, forthcoming 2021
A co-founder of the journal Women’s Writing, she has published biographies and critical work on many authors,including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, Mary (Shelley) and Fanny (Death And The Maidens) , and the Irish-Republican sympathiser, traveller and medical student, Lady Mount Cashell (Daughters of Ireland).
Born in Wales, Janet Todd grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon/Sri Lanka and has worked at schools and universities in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US (Douglass College, Rutgers, Florida), Scotland (Glasgow, Aberdeen) and England (Cambridge, UEA). A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.