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Secret Life of Aphra Behn . André Deutsch. 1996. ISBN   0-8135-2455-5.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft : A Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 2000. ISBN   0-231-12184-9.
  • The Complete Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft. Columbia University Press. 2004. ISBN   0-7139-9600-5.
  • Daughters of Ireland . New York: Ballantine Books. 2004. ISBN   0-345-44763-8. (published as Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict in the US)
  • The Cambridge Introduction to Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN   978-0-521-67469-0.
  • Death & the Maidens: Fanny Wollstonecraft and the Shelley Circle. London: Profile Books;Berkeley: Counterpoint. 2007. ISBN   978-1-58243-339-4.
  • Later Manuscripts of Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. ISBN   978-0-521-84348-5. Edited with Linda Bree
  • A Man of Genius, Bitter Lemon Press. 2016. ISBN   9781908524591
  • Aphra Behn: A Secret Life. Fentum Press. 16 May 2017. ISBN   9781909572065.
  • Radiation Diaries. Fentum Press. 2018. ISBN   978-1909572171
  • Jane Austen's Sanditon with an Essay by Janet Todd. Fentum Press. 2019. ISBN   978-1909572218
  • Don't You Know There's a War On?. Fentum Press. 2020. ISBN   978-1909572072 EBook ISBN   978-1909572201
  • Jane Austen and Shelley in the Garden. Fentum Press. 2021. ISBN   978-1909572270 EBook ISBN   978-1909572287
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    Janet Todd
    OBE
    President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge [1]
    In office
    October 2008 October 2015
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    Preceded by President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge
    2008–2015
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