![]() You know, I cannot recall the first moment I learned of “wife-selling,” but as a history major and writer of historical romance I’ve always read research books-especially about British history. Where did you first learn about bride auctions, and when did you decide to use that practice as the premise for a romance novel? We talked to Jordan about the historical practice of bride auctions, power dynamics in historical romance and why she wants to write a book inspired by John Tucker Must Die. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, a quick Google search revealed that bride auctions were a legal and common practice for decades, affording lower class citizens with an alternative to the far more immoral action of divorce.Īlyse is purchased and married to Marcus, Duke of Autenberry, an upstanding nobleman whose life has steadily imploded during the first two books of Jordan’s current series, The Rogue Files. ![]() Sophie Jordan’s The Duke Buys a Bride begins with a scene so seemingly outlandish, this reader believed there was no basis for it in the historical record: Heroine Alyse Bell is taken to the square of her tiny village and sold in a bride auction so that her much older husband can then marry another woman. ![]()
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