Helena Kelly

Helena Kelly

Helena Kelly holds a doctorate in English Literature from the University of Oxford, where she was most recently a Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College. She has also taught at the university.
In addition to publishing numerous academic pieces, she is the author of The Worlds of Jane Austen, The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen, The Secret Radical. Her writing has been hailed as ‘sublime’ (the Observer), ‘unimpeachable’ and ‘energizing’ (The New York Times), and ‘dazzling’ (The New Yorker).

Upcoming Events

BLF 2025
Caroline Sanderson, Helena Kelly, Lizzie Dunford
Jane Austen: The Woman Behind the Words
Saturday, 28 June 2025 | 13:30 – 14:45
Ballroom, Bradford Live, BD1 1NN
Austentatious, History
Event Reference: AU001