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Helena Kelly

Dr Helena Kelly is the author of The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens (due out November 2023) and Jane Austen the Secret Radical.

Dr Helena Kelly is the author of The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen the Secret Radical. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she has also taught from time to time, and continues to publish occasional scholarly articles. Her work combines a variety of methods ranging from close-reading and archival research to psychogeography, offering new angles on authors and the stories we tell about them.

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Dr Helena Kelly is the author of The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen the Secret Radical. She holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she has also taught from time to time, and continues to publish occasional scholarly articles. Her work combines a variety of methods ranging from close-reading and archival research to psychogeography, offering new angles on authors and the stories we tell about them.