Boston marriage

The two lived together quietly in what has been called a "Boston marriage".

There is no documentary proof that any particular Boston marriage included sexual relations.

Several entered into "Boston marriages" - unions with other women.

By all accounts, it was a devoted "Boston marriage".

Yet the hue that clings stickily to the memory after you have seen his "Boston Marriage" is pink.

Several small groups of advocates and researchers have advocated for the renewed use of the term, or the related term Boston marriage, today.

She entered into a Boston marriage with fellow student Eva Watson-Schütze.

She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage.

Leaving the house of one of her aunts, a partner in a Boston marriage, Irene feels her freedom.

The play is "Boston Marriage."

Boston marriages.

(The term Boston marriage, apparently first used here by James, came to connote just such an ambiguous co-habiting long-term relationship between two women.)

The play concerns two women at the turn of the 20th century who are in a Boston marriage, a relationship between two females that may involve both physical and emotional intimacy.

These relationships were termed romantic friendships, Boston marriages, or "sentimental friends", and were common in the U.S., Europe, and especially in England.

The term Boston marriage was used by Henry James in The Bostonians (1886), a novel involving a long-term co-habiting relationship between two unmarried women, "New Women".

Boston Registry Dept: Records Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing Boston Marriages from 1752-1809, Volume 30.

To still others, I've flirted with Boston marriages: I've lived with other women, they say, but I never have - not that way, at least; not the way they are implying.

After the sudden death of James Fields in 1881, Jewett and Annie Fields lived together for the rest of Jewett's life in what was then termed a "Boston marriage."

Notable women in Boston Marriages included Sarah Jewett and Annie Adams Fields, as well as Jane Addams and Mary Rozet Smith.