Outlaws on Parnassus

by Margaret Kennedy

First edition. Foreword by Malcolm Cowley. On novelists and reading. xviii, 216 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. 8vo..

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1977

About the author

Margaret Kennedy was an English novelist and playwright.
She attended Cheltenham Ladies' College, where she began writing, and then went up to Somerville College, Oxford in 1915 to read history. Her first publication was a history book, A Century of Revolution (1922). Margaret Kennedy was married to the barrister David Davies. They had a son and two daughters, one of whom was the novelist Julia Birley. The novelist Serena Mackesy is her grand-daughter.

Reviews

[Russel Henderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

A witty, erudite examination of the novel and of novelists from one of the underrated of their number.