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English Men Once Sold Their Wives Instead of Getting Divorced


Between the 17th and 19th centuries, wife-selling was a weird custom
with a practical purpose.

Erin Blakemore
Updated:
Aug 22, 2018


https://www.history.com/news/england-divorce-18th-century-wife-auction


George Wray tied a halter around his wife’s waist and headed to the
nearest market. He wasn’t there to buy anything—he was there to sell his wife.

Onlookers shouted as he auctioned her off to the highest bidder, William Harwood. After Harwood turned over a single shilling to Wray, he put his
arm around his purchase. “Harwood walked off arm in arm with his smiling bargain,”reported an onlooker, “with as much coolness as if he had purchased a new coat or hat.” It was 1847, and Wray had just gotten the equivalent of a divorce.

The scene sounds like an elaborate joke. In reality, it was anything
but. Between the 17th and 19th centuries, divorce was prohibitively
expensive. So some lower-class British people didn’t get them—they sold their wives instead. The custom seems outlandish today, but it could be
found in public places like markets, taverns and fairs. Historians
disagree on when or how the custom started and how widespread it was,
but it seems to have been an accepted alternative divorce among
lower-class Britons. Wife sales were crude and funny, but they also
served a very real purpose since it was so hard to get a divorce.

If your marriage broke up in the 1750s, you had to obtain a private Act
of Parliament—essentially, an exception to Britain’s draconian divorce law—to formally divorce. The process was expensive and time-consuming,
so wife-selling arose as a form of faux divorce. It wasn’t technically legal, but the way it unfolded in public made it valid in the eyes of many.

People could simply abandon one another, but a woman who entered into relationships with other people were in constant danger of their
previous husband swooping in to punish her new lover and get some money
in the process. Legally, her husband could demand that his wife’s lover
pay him a large amount of money for having sexual relations with his
wife, a right she lacked since courts didn’t allow wives to sue their husbands for adultery. Wife sales were a way to sidestep that risk.
Wife Auction

An illustrated scene from Thomas Hardy’s novel “The Mayor of Casterbridge” of a man selling his wife to highest bidder. (Credit: Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Oddly enough, the sales took on theform of cattle auctions of the time.
After announcing the sale, the man would put a ribbon or a rope around
his wife’s neck, arm or waist and lead her to “market” (either an actual market or another public place). Then, he’d auction her off, often after declaring her virtues to the onlookers. Once she was purchased by
another man, the previous marriage was considered null and void and the
new buyer was financially responsible for his new wife.

Usually, wife sales were merely symbolic—there was just one bidder, the woman’s new lover. Sometimes there wasn’t a designated buyer, though,
and an actual bidding war broke out. Men could announce a wife sale
without informing their wife, and she might be bid on by total
strangers. But women had to agree to the sale.

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