The Fool of the Family is a 1930 novel by the British writer Margaret Kennedy. It is the sequel to her 1924 bestseller The Constant Nymph.Sponenberg, Ashlie. Encyclopedia of British Women's Writing 1900–1950. Springer, 2006. p. 358. . .Hartley, Cathy. A Historical Dictionary of British Women. (2nd) Routledge, 2013. p. 526. .
In 1934, Kennedy adapted the novel into a play Escape Me Never which in turn had two film adaptations, Escape Me Never (1935) and Escape Me Never (1947).
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Stringer, Jenny & Sutherland, John. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 1996. .
External links Full text of The Fool of the Family at HathiTrust Digital Library