Margaret West Kinney

Margaret West Kinney was an American author and illustrator born in 1872 and died in 1952. Library and books-page records credit her with her own writing as well as illustration work, and they show that she collaborated often with Troy Kinney.

Her name appears on dance books including Social Dancing of To-Day, credited with Troy Kinney and John Murray Anderson, and on The Dance, Its Place in Art and Life, which was published under the shared identity of “The Kinneys.” She was also credited as an illustrator on a range of early 20th-century books, including works by Baroness Orczy, Jacques Futrelle, and others.

Even from the surviving catalog records, a clear picture comes through: she was part of a creative partnership that joined writing, drawing, and performance culture at a time when social dance was becoming a major popular art. Reliable portrait imagery was not clearly available from the sources I could confirm.