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Todd celebrates the undimmable power of Austen's work to help us understand our own bodies and our environment, and teach us about patience, humour, beauty and the meaning of home.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295746011509,"sku":"9781009569316","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781009569316_f8869f98-f4d7-4d2e-9f10-cf9bf2e1ba0b.jpg?v=1786017278"},{"product_id":"9781909572065","title":"Aphra Behn: A Secret Life","description":"The life, work and history of Aphra Behn: seventeenth century dramatist, poet, novelist, political propagandist, bisexual writer, and spy. Praise for the first hardback edition: Fascinating scholarship. Todd conveys Behn's vivacious character and the mores of the time. the New York Times  Ground-breakingit reads quickly and lightly. Even Todd s throwaway lines are steeped in learning and observation. Ruth Perry, MIT, Women s Review of Books  A major biography; of interest to everyone who cares about women as writers. Times Higher Education Supplement  Fascinating, a page-turner and a delight, an astonishingly thorough book. Emma Donoghue  All women together ought to let flowers fall on the tomb of Aphra Behn...For it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds. Virginia Woolf Aphra Behn, a spy in the Netherlands and the Americas, was the first professional woman writer. The most prolific dramatist of her age, innovative novelist, translator, lyrical and erotic poet, she expresses a frank sexuality addressing impotence, orgasm and bisexuality, whilst serving as political propagandist for the monarch.   This revised biography of the extraordinary, ground-breaking writer, who is emblematic of the Restoration period, a time of masks and self-fashioning, is set in conflict-ridden England, Europe, and in the mismanaged slave colonies, following the Puritan republic in 1660. Janet Todd, novelist and internationally renowned scholar, was President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, and a Professor at Rutgers, NJ. An expert on women s writing and feminism, she has published on many writers, including Jane Austen, the Shelley Circle, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Aphra Behn. \"","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308842660213,"sku":"9781909572065","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781909572065_01f71e2e-04b6-4eb5-ba11-6c08f30b3a34.jpg?v=1786029673"},{"product_id":"9781107494701","title":"The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen","description":"Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This introduction by Janet Todd, leading scholar and editor of Austen's work, explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and the essential information is given about her life and literary influences, her novels and letters, and her impact on later literature. For this second edition, the book has been fully revised; a new chapter explores the ways in which Austen's work has prompted imitations, adaptations and creative spin-offs. Key areas of current critical focus are considered throughout, but the book's analysis remains thoroughly grounded in readings of the texts themselves. Janet Todd outlines what makes Austen's prose style so innovative and gives useful starting points for the study of the major works, with suggestions for further reading.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56312125423989,"sku":"9781107494701","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781107494701_bee70368-25a6-4f1b-9039-f650050a288a.jpg?v=1786018107"},{"product_id":"the-connell-guide-to-jane-austens-pride-and-prejudice","title":"The Connell Guide To Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice","description":null,"brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490232082805,"sku":"9781907776021","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781907776021.jpg?v=1786442116"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-janet-todd.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}