About the Author

Linda Kelly is a distinguished historian and biographer whose works include 'The Young Romantics' (also published by Starhaven), 'Women of the French Revolution' and biographies of Thomas Chatterton, Tom Moore and Richard Brinsley Sheridan. Her portraits of salons which affected English cultural life during the revolutionary period at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries include 'Juniper Hall' and most recently 'Holland House'. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a former trustee of the London Library and the Wordsworth Trust.