Project Gutenberg 2020-07-19 Public domain in the USA. 143 Dane, Clemence 1888 1965 Ashton, Winifred A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bill_of_Divorcement_(play) Produced by Chuck Greif, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) "A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts" by Clemence Dane is a play written in the early 20th century. It explores themes of love, family, and the societal expectations surrounding marriage and divorce during a transformative period in British society. The central characters are Margaret Fairfield, a woman struggling with her past marriage to Hilary, who has returned after years of mental illness, and her daughter Sydney, who is eager to embrace modern ideas around love and marriage. At the start of the play, we find Margaret and her niece, Miss Hester Fairfield, engaged in a tense conversation on Christmas morning, revealing underlying family tensions regarding Margaret's delayed divorce from her mentally unstable husband. Sydney, Margaret's strong-willed daughter, enters the scene full of youthful confidence, contrasting with her mother's anxieties about her past. The opening sets the stage for a complex exploration of familial relationships, societal pressures, and the implications of love and commitment as they all navigate a changing world with the impending arrival of the formerly imprisoned Hilary, whose return complicates Margaret's desire to marry Gray Meredith. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 88.3 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Families -- Drama Man-woman relationships -- Drama England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama Mental illness -- Drama PR Text Category: Plays/Films/Dramas Category: British Literature 191586 2025-06-25T04:33:02.453536 text/html 172616 2024-10-18T04:36:40 text/html 186057 2025-06-25T04:33:07.379978 application/epub+zip 187221 2025-06-25T04:33:03.297522 application/epub+zip 107323 2025-06-25T04:33:02.819525 application/epub+zip 270208 2025-06-25T04:33:09.788019 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 242726 2025-06-25T04:33:06.995967 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 163451 2022-09-28T09:18:18.891990 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 131139 2025-06-25T04:33:01.596518 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 111192 2024-10-18T04:36:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17443 2025-06-25T04:33:09.916972 application/rdf+xml 13188 2025-06-25T04:33:02.920511 image/jpeg 2293 2025-06-25T04:33:02.869514 image/jpeg 170426 2025-06-25T04:33:02.474512 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia