Made for Man

{{Short description|1958 novel}}

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| language = English

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| genre = Comedy

| publisher = Methuen

| release_date = 1958

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Made for Man is a 1958 comedy novel by the British writer A. P. Herbert. Herbert had long been a campaigner for reform to Britain's divorce laws, which had been the subject of his earlier novel Holy Deadlock. In this case the topic concerned the right of divorced couples to remarry in the Church of England.Holmes p.81-82 Herbert portrayed this through two couples who are unable to marry in church, with one pairing modelled on Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend. He had once divorced an actress, and so the Archbishop of Canterbury cannot marry them even though the prospective bride is his goddaughter.Holmes p.83-84

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Bibliography

  • Holmes, Ann Sumner. The Church of England and Divorce in the Twentieth Century: Legalism and Grace. Taylor & Francis, 2016.

Category:1958 British novels

Category:British comedy novels

Category:Novels by A. P. Herbert

Category:Novels set in London

Category:Methuen Publishing books

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