My #book on #WifeSales tells the incredible #history of couples resolving marital discord by #selling #wife to new #beau. Never legal or illegal, allowed them to start again. In all formats online & physical shops

The best known site of #WifeSales was #SmithfieldMarket in London. They were often witnessed by #French officers on leave during #NapoleonicWars. This led to the belief it was commonplace. See my book #FrolicksomeWomen&TroublesomeWives in all formats from physical & online bookstores

My book tells the history of #WifeSales, often by couples who married in haste when moved to towns for better lives. They were held in public often market place with #halter in #belief this made it legal. Some surprising and happy outcomes. In all formats.

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In my #book on #WifeSales are som surprising tales of #love. A mature man married a woman 1/2 his age but when he grew #infirm he didn’t want to become a #burden to her so sold her to a younger man. Love comes in many forms. #SelfSacrifice

Love it when disparate stories collide. #JorgenJorgenson ordered to leave #England. From exhibition #LondonDead. Think he’s the same adventurer sailor noted chased down streets of #Hobart by #RollingPin wielding #wife in my book on #WifeSales

Front cover Frolicksome Women & Troublesome Wives Wife Selling in England

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#French PoWs witnessed #WifeSales at #Smithfield & mocked it but there were many successful relationships which followed. They signed market books, bride wore #halters etc to ensure legitimacy. Available in all formats @FrolicksomeWomenAndTroublesomeWives

Brilliant author. He witnessed the aftermath of a wife sale as a child. Discovered jom via my research on #WifeSales. Seems to have been destined to be a folklorist

If a marriage failed, divorce was too expensive so rituals developed for #WifeSales. Husbands were #imprisoned for #abandoning #families but women were free so sales were held in market places to give legality. When #laws failed people made their own #history