Rachael Lennon was the National Trust's co-founder of the revisionist Challenging Histories programme which Clare Balding claimed will change the way history is written and thought about from this point onwards . Having grown up understanding that marriage was only for a man and a woman, she married her wife Claire in Northumberland in 2017 - just 3 years after the legalisation of same-sex marriage in the UK. Rachael lives in Durham with her wife and daughter.
"'A fascinating book, which treads a new path through the history of marriage from a feminist perspective, Wedded Wife is eminently readable, and in places, darkly funny. The prose is at once well-paced and reflective, as Lennon weaves her own personal experience of proposal and marriage into the narrative. There is something for everybody here, from the voices of those women in the past who dared to challenge their lot, to the surprisingly recent invention of much that we consider ""traditional"".' Chloe Duckworth"