FTA: > “The practice in England was not really a sale, but rather a sort of customary divorce plus remarriage in which a woman who had committed adultery was d

FTA: > “The practice in England was not really a sale, but rather a sort of customary divorce plus remarriage in which a woman who had committed adultery was divorced by her husband and given to her partner in adultery,” says Matthew H. Sommer, a Department of History Chair at Stanford University and author of Polyandry and Wife-Selling in Qing Dynasty China.