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  • Jane Austen's Sanditon

    With an Essay by Janet Todd

    by Janet Todd, Jane Austen ...
    Coming to PBS Masterpiece Classic soon! Gorgeous, profound, delightful, useful, original, this fully illustrated, informative volume combines Jane Austen's Sanditon novel and Janet Todd's ground-breaking essay."I so enjoyed Janet Todd's beautifully produced book."Andrew Davies, screenwriter.Sanditon is Jane Austen’s last novel, left unfinished when she died. A comedy, it continues the strain of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Don't You Know There's a War On?

    by Janet Todd ...
    The Second World War is over. England is losing its empire, world status and old elite values. The Empire strikes back with mass immigration, while the government soothes its people with welfare, the NHS, televisions and refrigerators. At the centre of the novel is the contemptuous Joan Kite, at odds with all the changes imposed on the country in the post war period. Shut up in a house with her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Living with Jane Austen

    by Janet Todd ...
    Fanny Price, in Mansfield Park, tells her persistent suitor that 'we have all a better guide in ourselves...than any other person can be'. Sometimes, however, we crave external guidance: and when this happens we could do worse than seek it in Jane Austen's own subtle novels. Written to coincide with Austen's 250th birthday, this approachable and intimate work shows why and how - for over half a ... Read more

    $21.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden

    An Illustrated Novel

    by Janet Todd ...
    Eccentric Fran wants a second chance. Thanks to her intimacy with Jane Austen, and the poet Shelley, she finds one.Jane Austen is such a presence in Fran's life that she seems to share her cottage and garden, becoming an imaginary friend.Fran’s conversations with Jane Austen guide and chide her – but Fran is ready for change after years of teaching, reading and gardening. An encounter with a long ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution

    by Mary Wollstonecraft ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    This volume brings together extracts of the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of women's involvement in the political and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Lady Susan Plays the Game

    by Janet Todd ...
    A must-read for any devotee of Jane Austen, Janet Todd's 'naughty-Austen' reimagining of the epistolary novel Lady Susan will capture your literary imagination and get your heart racing.Austen's only anti-heroine, Lady Susan, is a beautiful, charming widow who has found herself, after the death of her husband, in a position of financial instability and saddled with an unmarried, clumsy and over ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Death and the Maidens

    Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley circle

    by Janet Todd ...
    1816 was the fateful year when the Romantic poet Shelley and his lover Mary shared a hectic creative and sexual menage in Switzerland with Lord Byron. This intense period drew from the men some of the greatest poetry of the age; from Mary, it elicited the seminal figures of Frankenstein and his Creature. But for other women close to Shelley it was a time of tragedy. At the heart of the story are ... Read more

    $6.09 USD

  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    'Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time' New York Times'All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn; for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds,' said Virginia Woolf. Yet that tomb, in Westminster Abbey, records one of the few uncontested facts about this Restoration playwright, poet of the erotic ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Radiation Diaries

    Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words

    by Janet Todd ...
    Radiation Diaries tells of a month of radiotherapy treatment undergone when Janet Todd was president of a Cambridge college and while her father, in his 100th year, was approaching death, with skin cancer. The day-by-day treatment brought into her mind flashes from her early life in Bermuda and Ceylon with her father, in Ghana and Puerto Rico, as a young woman, along with stored poems from ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gender, Art and Death

    by Janet Todd ...
    In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death. ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Mary Wollstonecraft

    A Revolutionary Life

    by Janet Todd ...
    The combination of Mary Wollstonecraft works, with her efforts to live a revolutionary inner and outer life has no equal. In her richly detailed, all-encompassing biography of the first major feminist in England, Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd highlights her intellectual and sexual dilemmas, her glamorous and tumultuous life and loves.Since the first publication of Mary Wollstonecraft: A ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Daughters of Ireland

    The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation

    by Janet Todd ...
    They were known as the Ascendancy, the dashing aristocratic elite that controlled Irish politics and society at the end of the eighteenth century—and at their pinnacle stood Caroline and Robert King, Lord and Lady Kingsborough of Mitchelstown Castle. Heirs to ancient estates and a vast fortune, Lord and Lady Kingsborough appeared to be blessed with everything but marital love—which only made the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD