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  • 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

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $9.99 CAD

  • 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

    $15.99 CAD 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

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.99 CAD

  • 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

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mary and Maria, Matilda

    by Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley ...
    These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary, the heroine flees her young husband in order to nurse her dearest friend, Ann, and finds genuine love ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • 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

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen

    by Janet Todd ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    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 ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment,vol 2

    by Janet Todd ...
    Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment, vol 5

    by Janet Todd ...
    Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Female Education in the Age of Enlightenment, vol 3

    by Janet Todd ...
    Both men and women took part in the education debate that culminated in the 1790s with Wollstonecraft, More and Edgeworth, but positions and arguments were laid down long before by Fordyce, Gregory, Gisbourne, West, Macaulay and Chapone, as featured in this text. ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD