Margaret Kennedy

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Margaret Kennedy (undated)

Margaret Kennedy (born April 23, 1896 in London , † July 31, 1967 in Adderbury ) was a British novelist, playwright and screenwriter.

Life

Margaret Kennedy was born the first of four children to a barrister at 14 Hyde Park Gate in upper class London. She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College and studied from 1915 History at Somerville College of Oxford University . In 1925 she married the barrister David Davies (1889-1964) and they had three children. Daughter Julia Birley and granddaughter Serena Mackesy also became writers. Her father's cousin was the author Joyce Cary .

Kennedy's first novel The Ladies of Lyndon was published in 1923. For her second novel The Faithful Nymphe , she wrote a theatrical version with Basil Dean , which became a box-office hit at London's West End New Theater in 1926, with 148 performances in its first season brought. The premiere cast was Noël Coward and Edna Best . In the line-up that changed until 1933, John Gielgud also achieved his first stage successes. Kennedy wrote three other co-productions for the stage. Her play The faithful nymph was first in 1928 as a silent movie filmed and then in 1933 as a sound film and again in 1943, also under the title The Constant Nymph , German Liebesleid , with Joan Fontaine as amorous teenager.

The stage version Escape Me Never of the novel The Fool of the Family was filmed twice under the same title, in 1935 with Elisabeth Bergner , and in 1947 with Ida Lupino and the music by Erich Wolfgang Korngold . Bergner had already stood on the stage of the Apollo Theater in the first performance in 1934 . The German synchronization of the film melodrama with Bergner was shown in 1982 under the title Verlaß mich nie again on ZDF .

Kennedy was also on the screenplays for The Old Curiosity Shop (1934) to the Mozart film Whom the Gods Love (1936) as well as dreaming eyes ( Dreaming Lips ) (1937) and Return to Yesterday involved (1940). Several of her works served as templates for film adaptations.

Kennedy wrote about 20 novels. Her novel Troy Chimneys received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1953 . Kennedy wrote a biography on Jane Austen and the essay Outlaws on Parnassus on literary theory.

Before the Second World War , the English book editions intended for export were published as paperback by Bernhard Tauchnitz-Verlag in Leipzig .

Works (selection)

In German translation
  • The oracles . Novel. London: Macmillan, 1955
    • God's fingers . Translation by Edmund Th. Kauer. Hamburg: Zsolnay, 1956
  • Troy Chimneys . Novel. London: Macmillan, 1953
    • Two souls . Translation by Edmund Th. Kauer. Vienna: Zsolnay, 1955
  • Lucy Carmichael . Novel. London: Macmillan, 1951
    • Lucy Carmichael . Translation by Gertrud Müller. Zurich: Schweizer Druck- u. Publishing house, 1953
  • The Feast . Novel. London: Cassell, 1950
    • The feast . Translation by Sigrid Kirkhov. Bern: Joke, 1951
  • Red Sky at Morning . Novel. London: Heinemann, 1927l
    • Refuge . Translation by Edith Lotte Schiffer. Hamburg: Gebr. Enoch, 1929
  • The Constant Nymph . Novel. London: Heinemann, 1924; Leipzig: Tauchnitz
    • The faithful nymph . Translation by Edith Lotte Schiffer. Munich: K. Wolff, 1925 [ The virgin love ]
nonfiction
  • Jane Austen . London: Barker, 1950
  • The Outlaws on Parnassus. On the art of the novel . London: Cresset Press, 1958
  • Not in the Calendar. The Story of a Friendship . London: Macmillan, 1964

Film adaptations (selection)

Literary template
script

literature

  • Violet Powell: The constant novelist: a study of Margaret Kennedy, 1896-1967 . London: Heinemann, 1983

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Literature by and about Julia Birley in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  2. ↑ Literature by and about Serena Mackesy in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  3. ^ The Constant Nymph. Cast & Crew , at Theatricalia
  4. ^ The Constant Nymph (1928). Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  5. ^ The Constant Nymph (1933). Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  6. ^ Escape Me Never (1935). Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  7. ^ Escape Me Never (1947). Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  8. ^ The Old Curiosity Shop (1934). Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  9. ↑ Whom the Gods Love. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Dreaming Lips. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
  11. ^ Return to Yesterday. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Kennedy, Margaret
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1967
Place of death Adderbury