[1] Other literary contemporaries at Somerville College included Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain, Hilda Reid, Naomi Mitchison and Sylvia Thompson.

[1] Kennedy was married on 20 June 1925 to the barrister David Davies (1889–1964), who later became a county court judge and a national insurance commissioner.

today for her second novel, The Constant Nymph, which she adapted into a highly successful West End play that opened at the New Theatre, with Noël Coward and Edna Best in September 1926.

Among later successes were The Fool of the Family (1930), a sequel to The Constant Nymph, and the psychological novel A Long Time Ago (1932).

The Midas Touch (1938) was a Daily Mail book of the month, The Feast (1949)[5] a Literary Guild choice in the United States, and Troy Chimneys (1953) winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

[6] Of her post-war novels, The Feast (1950) introduces the disaster (a seaside hotel annihilated by the collapse of a cliff) first and the characters who may or may not have perished in it afterwards, as in Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey.