Her son William Martin Kelly
turned out a disappointment. A recent biographer of Matthew Lewis
discounts stories that William's relationship with his patron was sexual. William, however, appears to have suffered, in typical young-gentleman fashion...
Friends, Associates
Isabella Kelly
Her friends or perhaps patrons included General Henry Seymour Conway
(father of the writer-sculptor Anne Damer
) and his whole family.
Kelly, Isabella. A Collection of Poems and Fables. Richardson, 1794.
39-40
Matthew Lewis
(though given his general view of fiction by women he may...
