Victorian author Charles Dickens wrote about wife-selling in the British Periodical "All the Year Round," in which he described the practice and condemned it.
Dickens, Charles. “Wives for Sale.” All the Year Round, 1 Oct. 1892, pp. 324-330.
Thomas Hardy also uses wife-selling as a plot devlopment in his novel "The Mayor of Casterbridge."
Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. E-book, Project Gutenberg, 2007.
