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    <namePart type="date">1888-1965</namePart>
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  <abstract>"A Bill of Divorcement: A Play in Three Acts" by Clemence Dane is a play first performed in 1921. Set in the early 1930s, the drama explores a controversial scenario: a woman divorcing her long-institutionalized husband to remarry. Their daughter must care for her father while confronting the possibility that his mental illness may be hereditary. The play imagines a future Britain where divorce is permitted on grounds of incurable insanity—a provocative premise that captivated audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and inspired three film adaptations. (This is an automatically generated summary.)</abstract>
  <note>Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bill_of_Divorcement_(play)</note>
  <note>Release date is 2020-07-19</note>
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Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was
produced from images generously made available by The
Internet Archive/American Libraries.)</note>
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    <topic>Families -- Drama</topic>
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    <topic>Man-woman relationships -- Drama</topic>
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    <topic>England -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Drama</topic>
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    <topic>Mental illness -- Drama</topic>
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