Margaret Kennedy
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Standard Name: Kennedy, Margaret
Birth Name: Margaret Moore Kennedy
Nickname: Peggy
Married Name: Margaret Moore Davies
Titled: Margaret, Lady Davies
The Constant Nymph and its subsequent successes on the stage and screen. Though she never attained such high recognition again, she proceeded to write fourteen more novels, many plays and film-scripts, uncollected short stories, two novellas, biography, criticism, part of a personal journal, and one volume of history. Her themes include the importance of art and artists, familial and marital relationships, and the woman's dilemma in balancing personal ambitions with social and domestic duties. She stopped producing once World War Two began, and by the time she resumed publishing in 1950 her writing fame had somewhat dissipated.
achieved international fame early in her writing career with the publication of her novel Timeline
Texts
Kennedy, Margaret. A Century of Revolution, 1789-1920. Methuen, 1922.
Kennedy, Margaret. Escape Me Never!. W. Heinemann, 1935.
Cowley, Malcolm, and Margaret Kennedy. “Foreword”. The Outlaws on Parnassus, Books for Libraries Press, 1970, p. ix - xvii.
Beauman, Nicola, and Margaret Kennedy. “Introduction”. The Ladies of Lyndon, Virago, 1981, p. ix - xix.
Birley, Julia, and Margaret Kennedy. “Introduction”. Together and Apart, Virago, 1981, p. vi - x.
Brookner, Anita, and Margaret Kennedy. “Introduction”. The Constant Nymph, Virago, 1983, p. ix - xiv.
Brookner, Anita, and Margaret Kennedy. “Introduction”. Troy Chimneys, Virago, 1985, p. vii - x.
Kennedy, Margaret. Jane Austen. A. Barker, 1950.
Kennedy, Margaret. Lucy Carmichael. Macmillan, 1951.
Kennedy, Margaret. Red Sky at Morning. W. Heinemann, 1927.
Kennedy, Margaret. Red Sky at Morning. Doubleday, Page, 1927.
Kennedy, Margaret. Return I Dare Not. W. Heinemann, 1931.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Constant Nymph. W. Heinemann, 1924.
Kennedy, Margaret, and Basil Dean. The Constant Nymph. W. Heinemann, 1926.
Kennedy, Margaret, and Anita Brookner. The Constant Nymph. Virago, 1983.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Feast. Rinehart, 1950.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Feast. Cassell, 1950.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Fool of the Family. W. Heinemann, 1930.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Fool of the Family. Doubleday, Doran, 1930.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Ladies of Lyndon. W. Heinemann, 1923.
Kennedy, Margaret, and Nicola Beauman. The Ladies of Lyndon. Virago, 1981.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Mechanized Muse. Allen and Unwin, 1942.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Midas Touch. Cassell, 1958.
Kennedy, Margaret. The Outlaws on Parnassus. Cresset Press, 1958.
Kennedy, Margaret, and Malcolm Cowley. The Outlaws on Parnassus. Books for Libraries Press, 1970.