The Seaside – Jane Austen enjoyed visits to the seaside and sea-bathing, and according to Cassandra experienced a seaside romance. Some themes and connection were already known to me: Todd focuses on important events and situations that could have impacted her writing at this time, as well as compares the writing itself to Jane Austen’s previous works. In addition to providing a short overview of Jane Austen’s life, Ms. Having read a couple of biographies on Jane Austen and knowing a fair share about the important events of her life, I was familiar with some influences and conjectures about this unfinished work, but the meticulous research and perceptive insight of Janet Todd unveiled a much deeper understanding and thought-provoking analysis. What a splendid study and thoughtful overview of Jane Austen’s writing of Sanditon.

Further reading suggestions and list of illustrations A short essay on continuations of Sanditon Jane Austen’s 11 and a half chapter fragment of Sanditon, with text edited by Janet Todd + endnotes Illustrations, photos, and Regency engravings And what could be a better way to understand and analyze this unfinished fragment than an introductory essay by academic scholar and author Janet Todd? With the new eight-part period-drama adaptation written by screenwriter Andrew Davies coming out this supremely elegant, informative hardcover edition of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel, Sanditon, is a timely release! For those who are already enjoying or anticipate enjoying this series, an acquaintance with Jane Austen’s original text would be a beneficial undertaking. Seaside Speculations and a Scrutinizing Look at Sanditon A former President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, she is now an Honorary Fellow of Rutgers, Florida), Scotland (Glasgow, Aberdeen) and England (Cambridge, UEA). Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden: An Illustrated Novel, forthcoming 2021Ī co-founder of the journal Women’s Writing, she has published biographies and critical work on many authors,including Jane Austen, Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughters, Mary (Shelley) and Fanny (Death And The Maidens), and the Irish-Republican sympathiser, traveller and medical student, Lady Mount Cashell (Daughters of Ireland).īorn in Wales, Janet Todd grew up in Britain, Bermuda and Ceylon/Sri Lanka and has worked at schools and universities in Ghana, Puerto Rico, India, the US (Douglass College,

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