[14] She is credited with writing the screenplay for the silent film Bondage (1917), directed by Ida May Park and starring Dorothy Phillips.

Kenton was an active suffragist[15] and a charter member of Heterodoxy, a feminist debating club based in Greenwich Village.

[16] She served on the executive board of the Provincetown Players, led by fellow Heterodites Eleanor Fitzgerald and Susan Glaspell, and wrote a history of the company, published many years later.

[17][18] She also wrote a biography of her kinsman, frontiersman Simon Kenton,[19] and several books based on the letters of Jesuit missionaries in North America.

[22] Edna Kenton died in 1954, age 77; author Leon Edel eulogized her in the New York Times.