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Margaret Kennedy was an acclaimed novelist and playwright best-known for The Constant Nymph. In this autobiographical account, taken from her war diaries, she conveys the tension, frustration, and bewilderment of the progression of the war, and the terror of knowing that the worst is to come, but not yet knowing what the worst will be.
English bravery, confusion, stubbornness, and dark humor provide the positive, more hopeful side of her experiences, in which she and her children move from Surrey to Cornwall, to sit out the war amidst a quietly efficient Home Guard and the most scandalous rumors.
"Most people knew in their hearts that the lid had been taken off hell, and that what had been done in Guernica would one day be done in London, Paris and Berlin." Margaret Kennedy's prophetic words, written about the pre-war mood in Europe, give the tone of this riveting 1941 wartime memoir: it is Mrs. Miniver with the gloves off.
Where Stands A Wingèd Sentry, the title comes from a seventeenth-century poem by Henry Vaughan, was only published in the USA in 1942, and was never published in the UK, until now.
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About Margaret Kennedy
Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967) was an English novelist and playwright. The Constant Nymph, her most successful work, was published both as a novel and a play and was made into a film in 1943. Her first publication was a history book, A Century of Revolution (1922), which she wrote after attending Somerville College, Oxford, to study history. She had a son and two daughters with her husband, the barrister David Davies. One of her daughters was the novelist Julia Birley, and the novelist Serena Mackesy is her granddaughter.