![]() ![]() ![]() Her recent novels and memoirs include Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021), Don’t You Know There’s a War On (2020), Radiation Diaries: Cancer, Memory and Fragments of a Life in Words (2018), and A Man of Genius (2016). After working as an academic around the world, Janet now lives in Cambridge. Professor Janet Todd is an internationally renowned scholar and novelist, known especially for her biographies of women writers including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn. Her talk ranges from Love and Freindship to Sanditon, with a long stay in Persuasion’s Lyme. In this talk, Janet Todd looks at Jane Austen as mentor, the giver of robust advice (albeit laced with irony) on conversing, on bodily ailments, and on attitudes to nature. Until the boom in Austen criticism from the 1970s onwards, Jane Austen’s novels were routinely seen as training manuals for conduct – given to girls and colonials as wholesome reading with assumed moral and social benefits. Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels Author Deirdre Le Faye Edition illustrated, reprint Publisher Harry N. ![]()
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