SOURCE: Carew, Dudley. “New Novels.” Times Literary Supplement, no. 1514 (5 May 1931): 96.

In the following review, Carew praises Collier's wit and satire in His Monkey Wife, but notes that the novel will be intensely disliked by some readers.

The title of Mr. John Collier's first novel, His Monkey Wife or Married to a Chimp, suggests a somewhat unpleasing variation on a zoological theme made popular by Mr. David Garnett in his “Lady into Fox.” Actually, however, the relationship between the two books is slight to the point of disappearance, for the fact that Emily happened to be a chimpanzee was the least important thing about that noble and intellectual character. Emily was, of course, a chimp (Mr. Collier insists throughout on the abbreviation) in a million, but it was not so much her ability to read as her steadfastness in love and her unlimited capacity for self-sacrifice that marked her...