Linda Kelly (author)

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.

  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. ^ "Linda Kelly obituary". The Times. 2 February 2019. (registration required)