First I learn about the British custom of wife-selling, halter and auction block and all. Then I discover that EP Thompson saw it as a plebeian, almost feminist workaround the prohibitive price of divorce—a way for a woman’s lover to buy her off her husband. What a day!
Worth reading Anna Clark's critique in The Struggle for the Breeches: https://www.amazon.com/Struggle-Breeches-Studies-History-Society/dp/0520208838 …
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Indeed! Good call. That’s what I was doing. (Well, actually, I was looking up wife-selling in it because I read about that in Pateman’s Sexual Contract.)
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