Margaret Moore Kennedy (23 April 1896 – 31 July 1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her most successful work, as a novel and as a play, was The Constant Nymph. She was a productive writer and several of her works were filmed. Three of her novels were reprinted in 2011.
Books in order of publication:
A Century of Revolution 1789–1920 ([London]: Methuen, 1922), history
The Ladies of Lyndon (London: Heinemann, 1923), novel
The Constant Nymph (London: Heinemann, 1924; Leipzig), novel
With Basil Dean: The Constant Nymph – from the novel (London: Heinemann, 1926), play
A Long Week-End (London: Heinemann, 1927), limited e. of short magazine story.
Red Sky at Morning (London: Heinemann, 1927), novel
With Basil Dean: Come with Me (London: Heinemann, 1928), play
Dewdrops (London: Heinemann, 1928), limited e. of short girls’ school story.
The Game and the Candle (London: Heinemann, 1928), limited e. of short magazine story.
The Fool of the Family (London: Heinemann, 1930), novel, sequel to The Constant Nymph
Return I Dare Not (London: Heinemann, 1931), novel
A Long Time Ago (London: Heinemann, 1932), novel
Escape Me Never (London: Heinemann, 1934), dramatization of The Fool of the Family
Together and Apart (London: Cassell, 1936), novel
With Gregory Ratoff: Autumn (1937), play
The Midas Touch (London: Cassell, 1938), novel
Where Stands A Wingèd Sentry (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1941), memoir
The Mechanized Muse. P. E. N. series (London: G. Allen & Unwin, 1942), on the cinema
Happy with Either (1948), play
The Feast (London: Cassell, 1949), novel
Jane Austen. Novelists Series No. 1 (London: Barker, 1950), biography/criticism
Lucy Carmichael (London: Macmillan, 1951), novel
Troy Chimneys (London: Macmillan, 1953), novel
The Oracles (London: Macmillan, 1955), novel
The Heroes of Clone (London: Macmillan, 1957), novel
The Outlaws on Parnassus. On the art of the novel (London: Cresset Press, 1958), criticism
A Night in Cold Harbour (London: Macmillan, 1960), novel
The Forgotten Smile (London: Macmillan, 1961), novel
Not in the Calendar: The Story of a Friendship (London: Macmillan, 1964), novel
Women at Work (London: Macmillan, 1966), two novellas