Tonight we will be heading to the Victorian Market place! Not to buy food...but rather to sell our (no-longer loved) ones. So, if you have a not-so-special someone who has been driving you batty during this pandemic, feel free to throw a rope around their waist and bring them along, as we experience what it was like for the common Victorian man or woman to sell their spouse. Maybe you'll even draw the attention of a new lover along the way.

Don't forget to stick around until the end of the episode for the Victorian slang term of the day! It's sure to leave you in a good mood.

 

 

 

 

Sources:

 E. P. Thompson, Customs in Common (London: Merlin Press)

Lauren Padgett, ‘The British Scandal’:Victorian Spouse- Selling. Journal of Victorian Culture

‘Selling a Husband for £10’, Glasgow Herald, Saturday 2 January 1869, Issue 9040.

 ‘Selling a Husband’, Birmingham Daily Post, Thursday 12 January 1888, p. 8, Issue 9218.

Vaessen, Rachel Anne (Autumn 2006 ). "Humour, Halters and Humilitation: Wife-sale as Theatre and Self-divorce" (PDF). Master of Arts thesis: p. 35. Simon Fraser University. Retrieved on 2009-12-19. "The following early nineteenth century caricature ridiculing a wife-selling husband (Figure 2)...", taken from A.H. Phillips Georgian Scrapbook (1949) - page 123

Music: David Fesilyan and David Renda