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    A Bill of Divorcement
    A Bill of Divorcement
    A Bill of Divorcement
    Audiobook1 hour

    A Bill of Divorcement

    Written by Clemence Dane

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    A Bill of Divorcement describes a day in the lives of a middle-aged British woman named Margaret "Meg" Fairfield, her daughter Sydney, Sydney's fiancé Kit Humphreys, Meg's fiancé Gray Meredith, and Meg's husband Hilary, who escapes after spending almost twenty years in a mental hospital. A 1932 film of the same name was directed by George Cukor and starred Katharine Hepburn and John Barrymore. (Summary by Wikipedia & Amanda Friday)

    Cast
    Margaret Fairfield: Arielle Lipshaw
    Miss Hester Fairfield: Elizabeth Klett
    Sydney Fairfield/Narrator: Amanda Friday
    Bassett: Caprisha Page
    Gray Merideth: BellonaTimes
    Kit Pumphrey: Brett Downey
    Hillary Fairfield: amaskill
    Dr. Alliot: tovarisch
    Rev. Christopher Pumphrey: Ric F

    Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    A Bill of Divorcement
    Author

    Clemence Dane

    Clemence Dane (1888–1965) was the pseudonym of Winifred Ashton, an English novelist, playwright, editor, and schoolteacher. Between the first and second World Wars, she was arguably Britain’s most successful all-round writer, with a unique place in literary, stage, and cinematic history. Dane won an Academy Award for her screenplay Vacation from Marriage. She wrote at least thirty plays and sixteen novels in her lifetime.

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