Description: "Austen's ingenious Gothic parody illuminates the material and social conditions of English genteel society in the late eighteenth century. Through its naèive young heroine, we delight in escapist fiction while learning its limitations"--
Brief description: Janet Todd is a critic, editor, novelist and biographer of Aphra Behn, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, and Irish pupils. Her latest novel is Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden (2021). Todd taught at Rutgers, UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen. A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham College.