Wife selling provides the backdrop for Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge, in which the central character sells his wife at the beginning of the story, an act that haunts him for the rest of his life, and ultimately destroys him.
Tento zvyk poskytl pozadí pro román Thomase Hardyho The Mayor of Casterbridge, ve kterém ústřední postava na začátku příběhu prodá svou manželku; tento čin ji pak pronásleduje po zbytek života, a nakonec ji i zničí.