The Young Romantics: Writers & Liaisons, Paris 1827-37

The originality of the study lies in the degree to which Ms Kelly has achieved something like a group biography... not a series of linked portraits, but the evocation of an entire emotional milieu. -- Richard Holmes, The Times.

I have been reading with delight The Young Romantics. -- Graham Greene

A comples and exhilarating story... an analysis of an exceptional interesting gtroup of creative artists. -- The New Statesman

No other book reveals so much of their world in such a brief compass, nor are there many that are so well written. -- The Sunday Telegraph