CARTOON FROM EDWARD SCAFE SCORFIELD PUBLISHED 1944, THE BULLETIN...

Ted Scorfield was born in Preston, England. In August 1914 he enlisted in the British Army and served at Gallipoli, Greece, and Palestine. After the war, while employed in a Tyneside shipyard, he began to draw cartoons for the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle. On the advice of his agent Percy Bradshaw, he came to Sydney in 1925 and joined the Bulletin as a cartoonist and illustrator, replacing Norman Lindsay. His political cartoons cheerfully followed the Bulletin line of the period, a combination of Australian nationalism and British conservatism.

In the desperate days of the Second World War, he lionized the Digger, exalted the Allies against the Japanese, and lampooned black-marketeers, strikers and 'white-feather conchies'. But he was almost never malicious: even his sinister Hitler, Stalin and Hirohito had a human, almost redeeming, fishiness about them. He published two collections of cartoons, A Mixed Grill (1943) and A Mixed Grill, No.2 (1952). He resigned in 1961, soon after Sir Frank Packer bought the ailing Bulletin and began to transform the magazine.

 

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Wife selling in England was a way of ending an unsatisfactory marriage by 'mutual' and 'not so mutual' agreement began in the late 17th century, when divorce was a practical impossibility for all but the very wealthiest. At todays prices the equivalent cost of obtaining a divorce in those days would be £20,000.00.

After parading his wife at a public market place with a halter around her neck, arm, or waist, the husband would publicly auction her to the highest bidder, often using the services of an auctioneer.

Wife selling persisted in England in some form until the early 20th century; according to the jurist and historian James Bryce, writing in 1901, wife sales were still occasionally taking place during his time. In one of the last reported instances of a wife sale in England, a woman giving evidence in a Leeds (city in West Yorkshire) police court in 1913 claimed that she had been sold to one of her husband's workmates for £1.

The widespread belief that a man could legally divorce his wife by putting a halter around her neck and leading her to be sold in the marketplace on a fair day. In some cases this was a relatively civilized arrangement between the husband, wife and her lover, all three meeting amicably afterwards for a drink. In other cases the wife would be ‘sold’ to a total stranger for the highest bid..

The practice of 'wife selling' was not strictly legal but became popular among the poor as a remedy to a bad marriage. In the early days the legal authorities turned a blind eye. The practice became more unpopular in its latter stages and was increasingly stamped down on by the the courts and could involve upto 6 months in prison.

Some cases of Wife Selling

Chipping Norton

The practice went on in rural areas as late as the mid-nineteenth century. In 1855, at
Chipping Norton in the Cotswolds, a man sold his wife for £25.00, a generous amount as 
the minimum price expected was 25 pence. By this time the wife selling practice was no longer considered respectable by the townspeople. For three nights running the purchaser and his new ‘bride’ were subjected to ‘rough music’, a traditional rural punishment for sexual misdemeanors where the victims would be assailed by a cacophony of discordant noise and ribald verses. On the third night a straw effigy of the man was burnt outside his house. He eventually gave in and paid the original husband to take his wife back.

 

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