ABSTRACT
The following paper was given at the MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT: LIFE WORK AND LEGACY conference held on 8 March 2017 to celebrate International Women’s Day. It was hosted by the Centre for Gender Studies of the University of Hull as part of the Hull City of Culture 2017 programme.
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Notes
1. Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2000; Bloomsbury ebook, 2014); Death and the Maidens (Counterpoint Press, 2007; Bloomsbury ebook, 2013).
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Janet Todd
Professor Janet Todd is an internationally-renowned scholar of early women writers and former president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge. She has written three linked biographies on Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters Fanny and Mary, and her aristocratic Irish pupil, Lady Mount Cashell. Her most recent books are the Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen (2015); A Man of Genius, Bitter Lemon Press 2016; Aphra Behn: A Secret Life, Fentum Press 2017; Radiation Diaries: cancer, memory and fragments of a life in words, Fentum Press 2018.