Author:Hugh Kelly

Hugh Kelly
(1739–1777)

Works

Prose

• Thespis; or, a Critical Examination into the Merits of all the principal Performers belonging to Drury Lane Theatre (1766)

Plays

• False Delicacy (1768)
• A Word to the Wise (1770)
• Clementina (1771)
• The School for Wives (1774)
• The Romance of an Hour (1774), based on "L'Amitié à l'Epreuve" by Jean François Marmontel
• The Man of Reason (1776)

Novels

• Memoirs of a Magdalen, or the History of Louisa Mildmay (1767), in 2 vols.

Collected works

• The Works of Hugh Kelly to which is prefixed the Life of the Author (by Edward Thompson) (1778)

Works about Kelly

• "Kelly, Hugh," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Kelly, Hugh," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Kelly, Hugh," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)