page_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people
section_title: Playwrights
hierarchical_section_title: List of Somerville College, Oxford, people / Alumni / Authors / Playwrights
caption_attribution_description: Subject: Kennedy, Margaret 1896-1967 Type: Black-and-White Prints Topic: Novelists &#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Genetics Local number: SIA Acc. 90-105 [SIA-SIA2008-4746] Summary: This photograph's caption explained that English novelist Margaret Moore Kennedy (1896-1967) "has demonstrated that a good story can be written which follows the rules of heredity." Kennedy's novel The Fool of the Family had been recently praised by geneticist Wilhelmine Marie Euteman Key (b. 1872), "... it is not necessary to ignore the laws of heredity in order to produce an interesting fiction family.... Dr. Key says that Margaret Kennedy's appeal to heredity, is entirely in line with the latest conclusions in the field." (Marjorie Van de Water, "False Fiction Families," Science News Letter, August 29, 1931). Cite as: Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives Persistent URL:Link to data base record Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives View more collections from the Smithsonian Institution.
context_page_description: The following is a list of notable people associated with Somerville College, Oxford, including alumni and fellows of the college. This list consists almost entirely of women, due to the fact that Somerville College was one of the first two women's colleges of the University of Oxford, admitting men for the first time in 1994. The college and its alumni have played a very important role in feminism.
  Somervillians include prime ministers Margaret Thatcher and Indira Gandhi, Nobel-Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin, journalist Esther Rantzen, reformer Cornelia Sorabji, writers Marjorie Boulton, Vera Brittain, A. S. Byatt, Susan Cooper, Penelope Fitzgerald, Winifred Holtby, Nicole Krauss, Iris Murdoch and Dorothy L. Sayers, politicians Shirley Williams, Margaret Jay and Sam Gyimah, Princess Bamba Sutherland and her sister, philosophers Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley and Onora O'Neill, archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon, actress Moon Moon Sen, soprano Emma Kirkby and numerous activists.
context_section_description: Marcy Kahan, Canadian-American playwright and radio dramatist; winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and a Silver Radio Academy Award
  Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967), novelist and playwright; author of The Constant Nymph
  Christine Longford, Countess of Longford (1900–1980), playwright; wife of Edward Pakenham, 6th Earl of Longford
  Christabel Marshall (1871–1960), LGBT campaigner for women's suffrage; playwright and author
  Peter Morris (1973), American playwright; writer of Guardians
caption: Margaret Kennedy
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