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Oroonoko, the Rover, and Other Works
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Aphra Behn, Professor Janet Todd (Editor)
Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to earn a living with her pen, wrote OROONOKO--a combination of memoir, narrative, and biography--to tell the story of a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave. THE ROVER was Behn's most popular play, produced in 1677 and 1681.
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Oroonoko
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Aphra Behn (1640-1689), the first Englishwoman to earn a living with her pen, wrote this combination of memoir, narrative, and biography to tell the story of a black man who begins life as a prince and ends it as a slave.
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Jane Austen in Context
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Janet M Todd (Editor)
This collection of essays covering many aspects of Austen's life, works and historical context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the life and times of Jane Austen. Jane Austen in Context is a generously illustrated collection of short, lively contributions arranged alphabetically, and covering topics from biography to portraits ...
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Later Manuscripts
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Jane Austen, Professor Janet Todd (Editor), Linda Bree (Editor)
The manuscripts that survive from Jane Austen's maturity offer a unique insight into her life as a creative writer. This volume collects together, for the first time, all the literary manuscripts from Austen's adult years (with the exception of the cancelled chapters of Persuasion, in this edition printed with the finished novel), together with ...
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Mary; Maria; Matilda
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Professor Janet Todd (Editor), Mary Wollstonecraft
These three works of fiction - two by Mary Wollstonecraft, the radical author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", and one by her daughter Mary Shelley, creator of "Frankenstein" - are powerfully emotive stories that combine passion with forceful feminist argument. In "Mary Wollstonecraft's Mary", the heroine flees her young husband in order ...
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A Wollstonecraft Anthology
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Janet M Todd (Editor), Mary Wollstonecraft
Mary Wollstonecraft is widely recognized as a social and political thinker of major significance and as one of the most important and influential of the early feminists. Some of her works, such as "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman", have become central texts of feminist thought. Written in the eighteenth century, her social commentary ...
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A Vindication of the Rights of Men/A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution
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Mary Wollstonecraft
This volume brings together the major political writings of Mary Wollstonecraft in the order in which they appeared in the revolutionary 1790s. It traces her passionate and indignant response to the excitement of the early days of the French Revolution and then her uneasiness at its later bloody phase. It reveals her developing understanding of ...
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Mary Wollstonecraft: A Revolutionary Life
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Professor Janet Todd
This biography of the 18th-century, proto-feminist author of THE VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN focuses on Wollstonecraft's familial relationships, often casting her in a critical light.
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British Women Writers
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Dale Spencer, Janet Todd (Editor), Dale Spender
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The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen
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Professor Janet Todd
Jane Austen is unique among British novelists in maintaining her popular appeal while receiving more scholarly attention now than ever before. This innovative introduction by a leading scholar and editor of her work explains what students need to know about her novels, life, context and reception. Each novel is discussed in detail, and all the ...
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Daughters of Ireland: The Rebellious Kingsborough Sisters and the Making of a Modern Nation
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Janet M Todd
In the tradition of Amanda Foreman's bestselling "Georgiana," this novel traces the defiant lives of two women, set against a glittering backdrop in an age of revolution.
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Juvenilia
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Jane Austen
Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. She preserved these early writings in three manuscript notebooks, entitled, with mock solemnity, 'Volume the First', 'Volume the Second', and 'Volume the Third'. Most of these works are short fictions, but Austen also wrote the opening of what ...
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The Collected Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft
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Professor Janet Todd (Editor), Mary Wollstonecraft
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Flash MX Design for TV and Video
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Janet Galore, Todd Kelsey, Jeremy Clark (Foreword by)
Macromedia Flash is now the standard for Web animation. But as more and more animators are discovering, you can also use Flash to produce animations for television-efficiently, inexpensively, and without compromising quality. Co-written by the Flash animator who helped to create the FishBar series that appeared on MTV, this guide shows you step-by ...
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Women Writers Talking
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Janet M Todd
This title contains interviews by critics and scholars with fifteen of today's foremost women writers, including Maya Angelou, A S Byatt, Luce Irigaray, Erica Jong, Jeanne Moreau, and Grace Paley.
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The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn
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Derek Hughes (Editor), Professor Janet Todd (Editor)
Traditionally known as the first professional woman writer in English, Aphra Behn has now emerged as one of the major figures of the Restoration. She provided more plays for the stage than any other author and greatly influenced the development of the novel with her ground-breaking fiction, especially Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister ...
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Women's Friendship in Literature
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Janet M Todd
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Feminist Literary History
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Janet M Todd
In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics. She argues that this approach rightly links the political concerns of feminist criticism to the uncovering of female voices embedded in history.Todd reconstructs the ...
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Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798
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Janet M Todd
Two sisters, two rebellions. In 1797/8, London and Dublin society was scandalised by the elopment of Mary, daughter of the Earl of Kingston (a leading member of the Irish aristocracy) with her cousin Henry Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was subsequently murdered by the Earl, his own adopted father and the Earl elected to face trial before his peers in the ...
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Keep the Siblingsse the Rivalry: 10 Steps to Turn Your Kids Into Teammates
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Janet Laurence, Todd Cartmell
Sibling problems are a natural part of family life and a God-given opportunity to teach children the valuable relational skills they need for life. Parents will find biblical references and a Christian worldview woven into this practical and comprehensive look at the problems and opportunities that arise between siblings.
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Aphra Behn Studies
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Professor Janet Todd (Editor)
Aphra Behn was England's first professional woman writer, but her status as a major author has only recently become clear. Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, Behn was denigrated for her 'unwomanly' subject matter and intellectual immodesty. In the twentieth century she has been increasingly viewed as an important dramatist and poet ...
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Gender & Literary Voice Women & Lit Series Vol.1
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Janet M Todd
Is literature androgynous? Can a language used by men effectively express women's perceptions? This book debates the presence of a distinctive female style, voice, or content in the literature written by women from the middle ages to the twentieth century. Mary Wollstonecraft and Fanny Burney wrote on the linguistic difficulties of women's prose; ...
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Women & Film: Women & Lit Series - Vol. 4
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Janet M Todd
This 4th volume in the series examines the portrayal of women in film, as well as their involvement in the medium - as filmmakers, screenwriters, actresses, critics and characters. The collection of essays is introduced by an insightful discussion of feminist film theory.
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Works of Aphra Behn
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The first complete edition of the works of Aphra Behn, including several new attributions. Drawing on a mass of new material in private papers and the Public Records Office, Janet Todd has discovered texts which reveal Behn as a far more enigmatic figure than she initially appears to be. The texts are published with extensive notes, textual ...
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Sense & Sensibility Sense & Sensibility
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Jane Austen, Professor Janet Todd (Editor)
In SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, Jane Austen writes about two ways of looking at the world in the personalities of two sisters, Elinor the determinedly practical and Marianne the madly romantic. Forced to live in reduced circumstances with their widowed mother and younger sister, the Dashwood girls must rely on marrying well if they are to survive in the ...
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