#WifeSales
December 6, 2025 at 11:12 AM
November 30, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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.
January 7, 2026 at 10:56 AM
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
March 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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
Originally published in 1865, Baring-Gould's book is still the standard reference on werewolves. Just finishing it now. It interprets accounts as folkloric transmissions mixed with accounts involving mental illness, and has what feels like a 'modern' approach.
August 3, 2024 at 9:43 AM
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
January 25, 2024 at 11:08 AM
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
January 9, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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
March 20, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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
June 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#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
November 18, 2024 at 6:06 PM