The Flitch of Bacon is an 1854 historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth.

[1] He based it on the tradition of the Flitch of Bacon at Little Dunmow in Essex, awarded to the happiest married couple.

It inspired a revival of the practice, with Ainsworth judging a competition the following year.

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