In 1925 she married Sir David Davies, a barrister. She continued her career as a professional writer while rearing a son and two daughters, her last novel appearing in 1964, the year of her husband's death. In addition to her novels, she wrote
Escape Me Never! (1934), a three-act version of her novel
The Fool of the Family (1930), and two other plays as well as adapting Dickens's "The Old Curiosity Shop" for the movies, an art form she discussed in a monograph,
The Mechanized Muse (1942). Though she never used the war years as a setting for any of her novels, she did publish a journal of the months from May to September 1940 in which she recounts her experience in the Welsh village to which she and her children had retreated. Rather than using a specific historical event of the twentieth century as the background for the action of any of her novels, Kennedy drew upon her knowledge and understanding of the historical milieu of the whole twentieth century--its wars, its Victorian heritage, its materialism, its economic and social class discriminations--to delineate her characters and their dilemmas. Only two of her novels,
Troy Chimneys and
A Night in Cold Harbour (1960), are set in the nineteenth century, and both focus upon a character's struggle which results from a specific social problem of that time, class distinctions in the former and the use of child labor in the latter.
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