Janet Todd - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2000. ISBN 0-231-12184-9.

This biography of Mary Wollstonecraft argues that her life and letters are her most lasting legacy. Her story was extraordinarily scandalous in conventional terms, yet in her own terms always principled and highly moral.

The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Columbia University Press. 2004. ISBN 0-7139-9600-5.

This volume contains the collection of all known correspondence of Mary Wollstonecraft.

Daughters of Ireland. New York: Ballantine Books. 2004. ISBN 0-345-44763-8. (published as Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict in the USA)

This is a biography of Margaret King and Mary King daughters of Robert Lord Kingsborough, later Earl of Kingston, of Mitchelstown Castle during the time of Irish rebellion. The radical Mary Wollstonecraft was hired as their governess.

The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN ].

An introduction to Jane Austen, her works and literary influences, including a summary of the literary criticism to date for each of her six published novels

Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. London: Profile Books;Berkeley: Counterpoint. 2007. ISBN 978-1-58243-339-4.

A biography of the Fanny Wollstonecraft, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin and half-sister of Mary Godwin Shelley, whose own infatuation with Percy Bysshe Shelley took a backseat when her sister eloped with the poet and who tragically ended her life at the age of 22.

Later Manuscripts of Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-521-84348-5.

Edited with Linda Bree. This volume collects together, for the first time, all the literary manuscripts from Jane Austen's adult years, together with letters discussing the art of fiction, and her record of responses to her novels.