LINDA KELLY’S books include Juniper Hall, Richard Brinsley Sheridan and most recently Ireland’s Minstrel (I.B.Tauris), a life of the Irish poet Tom Moore. She has written for The Washington Post, The New York Times, the Times Literary Supplement and numerous other publications, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Wordsworth Trust. She is married to the writer Laurence Kelly, a specialist in Russian history. They live in London, not far from Holland Park.