Description: "Persuasion is a powerful portrait of female grief triumphantly overcome. Opening with its heroine lamenting the loss of love in a painful reversal of the courtship novel, it transforms by degrees into a rapturous romantic comedy. Explanatory endnotes illuminate cultural, historical and literary context, bringing Jane Austen's world to life"--
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.