MARGARET KENNEDY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED 07/21/1930 - HFSID 73022

MARGARET KENNEDY
The successful novelist and playwright sends her apologies for being late, along with her signature in black ink
Autograph letter signed: "Margaret Kennedy" in black ink. 2 pages integral leaf, 5½x7½ folded. London, England. July 21, 1930. Written on personal letterhead. In full: "Dear Dr. Bramley, I want to apologize that your request for my autograph was not answered before, but it was sent after to me to Italy where it lingered for a long time before pursuing me home again. Please forgive the discourtesy and accept my thanks for your kind note. Yours sincerely". Margaret Kennedy (1896-1967) was an English novelist and playwright. Her career began after attending Somerville College in Oxford where she read history, inspiring her first history book A Century of Revolution (1922). She began writing novels in 1923 with The Ladies of Lydon,but it was her second novel for which she is best known for, The Constant Nymph (1924), which she adapted herself to the highly-successful West End and Broadway play, and even eventually a 1928 film starring Ivor Novello, Mabel Poulton and Benita Hume (with additional film adaptions in 1933, 1938, and 1943). She wrote a sequel titled The Fool of the Family in 1930, as well as other novels such as A Long Time Ago (1932), The Midas Touch (1932), The Feast (1950) and Lucy Carmichael (1951), and non-fiction books such as a biography of Jane Austen and a study of the art of fiction titled Outlaws on Parnassus. She is the grandmother of novelist Serena Mackesy. Normal mailing folds. Toned. Light surface creases. Corners rounded. Adhesive tape affixed on verso, stained and soiled. Otherwise, fine condition.