Janet Todd
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181 appearances
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1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 6 Aug
Janet Todd’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Dutch.
The Dutch, it's the Dutch.
The world has turned towards a more sentimental version of life.
The distinction between men and women is re-established.
Women, I suppose, particularly, to be more associated with emotions and religion and with the virtuous side of life.
And so Afra Ben sticks out now, not just as one of many playwrights who were bawdy, but as a woman who was bawdy.
And as such, he is vilified constantly throughout the next century.
Did you go and lay flowers?
I did, I did.
I thought you might.
With Lucy Worsley in a programme.
But I think it's a tricky one.
It's on every book about Aphra Behn pretty well on the cover.
But Virginia Woolf, I think, brings her back into history to some extent, but as a woman, as an amazing woman writer.
And I don't think that Virginia Woolf really gave her her due as an actual creative writer.
So I think it's a good quotation, and Virginia Woolf is famous, so it's useful that she said it, and it's very quotable.
But it doesn't do justice to the great writer.
Poetry.
Yes, Clarinda.
We left out poetry.
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