Elinor Marwood Kennedy

With this publication, Kennedy began an eleven-year relationship with Heinemann . Virago republished the book in 1981 as one of its Modern Classics series; it included an introduction by Nicola Beauman . MK dedicated her...

MK 's mother, born Elinor Marwood , came from a Cleveland family of twelve children. MK identified closely with her maternal ancestry; she took material from the lives of her mother's sisters for many of her novels.

In the same year that her mother died, 1928, MK gave birth to her first child, Julia , who also became a novelist. Another daughter and a son followed in 1930 and 1935. Kennedy and...