Divorced, Beheaded, Sold

Covering more than 300 years of English history, Maria Nicolaou reveals how people ended their marriages in the days before divorce was readily available. A fresh perspective on the seamy side of history, Maria Nicolaou has done considerable research into the largely unexplored area of divorce and marital separation from the Tudor period to the early Victorian era. Divorced, Beheaded, Sold is full of scandalous, little-known stories of bigamy, wife sale, marital discord, and audacious escapades