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Linda Kelly (author)

Linda Kelly (author)

English historian (1936–2019)

Linda Kelly (1 October 1936 – 12 January 2019) was an English historian and biographer, the author of ten books, whose specialised in the period of romanticism.

Born Linda McNair-Scott, she married the writer Laurence Kelly. Her books provided group biographies of writers, performers and politicians, linked through social and professional contacts in France and Britain over the period 1770–1840.[1]

Kelly died on 12 January 2019, aged 82.[2] She was the wife of the writer Laurence Kelly.

Publications

  • The Marvellous Boy: the Life and Myth of Thomas Chatterton (1971)
  • The Young Romantics: Paris 1827-1837 (1976; 2nd edition 2003)[3]
  • The Kemble Era: John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and the London Stage (1980)
  • Women of the French Revolution (1989)
  • Juniper Hall: An English Refuge from the French Revolution (1991)
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1997)
  • Susanna, the Captain and the Castrato: Scenes from the Burney Salon, 1779-80 (2004)
  • Ireland's Minstrel: A Life of Tom Moore: Poet, Patriot and Byron's Friend (2006)
  • Holland House: a History of London's Most Celebrated Salon (2013)
  • Talleyrand in London: The Master Diplomat's Last Mission (2017).

References

  1. [1]
    "Linda Kelly, historian of the Romantic era who brought such figures as Sheridan, Chatterton and Talleyrand vividly to life". The Daily Telegraph. 2 February 2019. (registration required)
  2. [2]
    "Linda Kelly obituary". The Times. 2 February 2019. (registration required)
  3. [3]
    Reviewed by Lucy Dallas in the Times Literary Supplement, 6 December 2003.
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