Radio interview with Dr. Janet Todd
Alert Janeite Joan sent us a link to a radio interview with Dr. Janet Todd, who is general editor of the new Cambridge editions of Jane Austen’s novels and was a keynote speaker at the JASNA AGM in Vancouver last month. The interview was broadcast during the AGM and is now available in the CBC archives. Joan kindly gave us a very detailed rundown of the 15-minute interview, which included Dr. Todd’s thoughts about the AGM, about Jane Austen in popular culture (yay!), editing the Cambridge editions, Jane Austen in her own time, modern film versions of the novels, and quite a bit more! (If any kind Janeite could deliver it to us in a format that is NOT Real Player, we should be very grateful.)
November 23rd, 2007 at 6:46 am
Dr Todd is an excellent academic and it’s a wonderful interview. It’s so refreshing to finally hear people in the know acknowledge that Jane Austen wasn’t some contented spinster writing for fun but an ambitious, dedicated, professional writer.