She is best known as the co-author of the novel That Very Mab and the poetry collections Dreams to Sell and Songs from Dreamland.
[1] Possibly her most anthologized poem, "Lay of the Trilobite," is a satire of the popular English response to Darwin's evolutionary theory.
"Lay of the Trilobite" was originally published in Punch Magazine, to which Kendall contributed for ten years.
[2] Much of her literary output focuses on evolution and other scientific discoveries, the New Woman, and satirical portraits of British society and its hypocrisy.
[3] In 1895 Kendall partially gave up professional writing in order to more fully devote her life to social reform.