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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)<br/><br/><strong>Cast</strong><br>Margaret Fairfield: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3536">Arielle Lipshaw</a><br>Miss Hester Fairfield: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/1259">Elizabeth Klett</a><br>Sydney Fairfield/Narrator: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/6544">Amanda Friday</a><br>Bassett: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7138">Caprisha Page</a><br>Gray Merideth: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/3657">BellonaTimes</a><br>Kit Pumphrey: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4535">Brett Downey</a><br>Hillary Fairfield: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/7923">amaskill</a><br>Dr. Alliot: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/8169">tovarisch</a><br>Rev. Christopher Pumphrey: <a href="http://librivox.org/reader/4267">Ric F</a><br><br><strong>Audio edited by Elizabeth Klett</strong>

2Regiment of Women

By Clemence Dane

Set in a small town in Edwardian England, Regiment of Women is about the relationship between two teachers at a private (and elitist) girls' school. One of them, Clare Hartill, is in her mid-thirties and runs the school in all but name. Most of the girls are devoted to Hartill and gladly suffer under her strict but charismatic rule. The other teacher is Alwynne Durand, an attractive nineteen-year-old woman who lives with Elsbeth Loveday, her unmarried aunt and guardian. When Durand starts teaching at the school she is immediately popular with her students but also excites Hartill's attention. The two women become close friends, and the couple also travel abroad together during the summer holidays. Although Loveday and Hartill hardly ever meet, a strange kind of antagonism develops between them, each woman fighting to spend more time than they do with Alwynne Durand and to be the dominant person in Alwynne's life.<br><br>Famous for its veiled references to lesbian relationships, this novel was said to have inspired Radclyffe Hall's "The Well of Loneliness". - Summary by Beth Thomas Dedicated to Beth Thomas