Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by mutual agreement that probably began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. After parading his wife with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, a husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder.
Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20th century. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds police court
in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1.
-Thomas Hardy 's novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
-Selling a Wife (1812–14), by Thomas Rowlandson works and paintings
-Courtney Kenny, "Wife-Selling in England"
-James Bryce (1901) on a subject of "Wife Selling Custom"
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