Janet Todd

Along with her novels MD has regularly published short stories. She edited a collection of such stories, An Anthology, in 1976.The Reunion, which first appeared in Women Writing, ed. Denys...

Christened on 7 March 1841 at Wybunbury in Cheshire, she was the youngest of three daughters, and had a younger brother, Delves.

Wordsworth chose from her works eleven melancholy and religious couplets from Sorrow, for inclusion in his manuscript anthology presented to Lady Mary Lowther at Christmas 1819. He omitted the later part of the poem...

Modern critics have discussed the style of sentimental heroine favoured in the novels dating from the years of SG 's collaboration with her sister Margaret Minifie . Janet Todd has claimed that these female protagonists...

At this point MM lost the support of the Critical Review. It pronounced this novel one of the most uninteresting we ever perused.Janet Todd has given some pages to...

The book was handsomely produced, having a decorated dedication page, and a frontispiece featuring an oval portrait (or fictitious portrait) of Ephelia, with a heraldic badge above the picture and a pedestal bearing her engraved...

During this year MS helped her husband arrange the scenes in his incest-drama, The Cenci. She worked on her own fiction to distract herself when prostrated by grief after the death of her...

In 1933 there was excitement in the book-collecting world when a small collection of books that Austen had owned (by writers like Ariosto , Goldsmith , Hume , and Thomson ) appeared in the catalogue...

Her reputation (resting on her behaviour as much as on her writings) was problematic in her lifetime and has fluctuated since. Todd writes that heterosexual desire and disappointment in its outcomes was a driving force...

This satirizes as Sir Patient Fancy a strongly Whiggish London alderman, Sir Patience Ward . It borrows a good deal from Molière : chiefly, and with acknowledgement, from Le malade imaginaire, but also from...

This (full title To Poet Bavius: Occasion'd by his Satyr He Writ in his Verses to the King , upon the Queen s being Deliver'd of a Son) ridicules the labouring Muse

She says that she does not profess to include those women whose virtues went not beyond the circle of home, and whose piety was limited to worship. In excluding solely domestic women, scholar Janet Todd

The dedication is signed Maria Barrell, though the title-page renders this in at least some copies as Maria Arrell. Scholar Janet Todd notes that MB focused on the issue of imprisonment for debtors and...

AB 's poems were mostly opportunistic in some way, seizing the chances offered her, either by projects of literary colleagues or by royal or other grand occasions, to make some money. She makes much use...

Modern editions of MW began in the 1970s. Ralph M. Wardle edited her Collected Letters in 1979. Her Collected Works have been edited by Marilyn Butler and Janet Todd in seven volumes. MW is one...