Janet Todd
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181 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
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All I can do is speculate, and I think it's to do with these connections that she makes.
I think it's the best we can do and I think it's a lot.
I mean, a lot of people who are very clever can get there through their wit.
And I think the other thing is it's a period in which women could do this.
The period in which women could, who are clever, witty and pretty as well, could actually rise and get to a position where they could hobnob with people of learning and education.
We do know that, for sure.
Well, you're on your own, Joanna.
I was hoping I was going to be asked about her theatrical world.
But I think she was already a spy when she went to Suriname, which is an amazing place for a woman to go at that time.
And I think that because she was already being called Astraea, which was her code name later and her theatrical name.
And in Suriname, she also met a William Scott, who was a dissident, a Republican and an enemy of the king.
And when she was definitely a spy in Antwerp, codenamed 160 and called Astraea again, she was sent there to bring in this William Scott and make him turn into a double agent so that he would work for the government of Charles II.
She wrote endlessly about needing more money.
And I think all through her life, most of her letters that we have are asking for money.
Well, I think she develops it more in the later plays, but it certainly starts here.
That dichotomy between the virgin who gets the rake, the man, the most desirable man, and the whore who doesn't but has the best speeches.
I think is going on all the way through.
And these lovelorn women who are a little more experienced, it's a feature of Afro-Bend's plays.
But I think what's there already is the notion that the world is stacked against women.
It's a patriarchal world and that women need to use their sexuality and to use their wit and cunning to succeed in the world.
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