Linda Kelly (author)

{{Short description|English historian (1936–2019)}}

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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.{{Cite news|title=Linda Kelly, historian of the Romantic era who brought such figures as Sheridan, Chatterton and Talleyrand vividly to life |date=2 February 2019 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/02/02/linda-kelly-historian-romantic-era-brought-figures-sheridan/}} {{registration required}}

Kelly died on 12 January 2019, aged 82.{{cite news|title=Linda Kelly obituary|url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/linda-kelly-obituary-w3bdkhpbs|newspaper=The Times |date=2 February 2019}} {{registration required}} She was the wife of the writer Laurence Kelly.