SOURCE: Brickell, Herschel. “A Variety of Fiction.” The North American Review 231 (1931): 574.

In the following review, Brickell comments on Collier's satire and humor in His Monkey Wife.

One of the most engaging of recent novels is an English satire by John Collier and called His Monkey Wife or Married to a Chimp. In brief, it is the story of the return from Africa to England of a young Englishman. His companion is a lady chimpanzee named Emily. Once at home, he falls in love with a pretty girl, but after many difficulties decides to marry Emily and return to Africa. This is a highly entertaining piece of fiction, and also a sharp and amusing comment upon civilization. It is no small feat to hold the interest of the reader in a book of this kind and to give its impossible story plausibility, but Mr. Collier has succeeded in both...