Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) was one of the most successful and prolific British novelists of the twentieth century. Her first novel, The Ladies of Lyndon, was published in 1923. Her second novel, The Constant Nymph, became an international bestseller - it sold copies in the millions and spawned no fewer than three screen adaptations. She also produced literary criticism, plays, screenplays, and a biography of Jane Austen. Margaret Kennedy died in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, in 1967.
