Linda Kelly (author) explained

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