Janet Todd

Janet Todd is an internationally renowned novelist and academic, best known for her non-fiction feminist works on women writers such as Jane Austen, Aphra Behn and Mary Wollstonecraft. Her acclaimed novels include ‘Lady Susan Plays the Game’ (2013), ‘A Man of Genius’ (2016) and ‘Don’t You Know There’s a War On?’ (2020).

Janet was a professor of English Literature at UEA, Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities, before becoming president of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge (2008-15), where she established the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize. She is now an Honorary Fellow of Newnham and Lucy Cavendish Colleges. In 2013, she was awarded an OBE for her services to higher education and literary scholarship.