Boston Marriage

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

In answer to Rich White's query:

"Boston Marriage" is a term once used for when two women would live together
to save money and support each other.  (I once had a great-aunt who had
such an arrangement.)  This has led to speculation about lesbian relationships
in literature and elsewhere (Henry James's THE BOSTONIANS being one of the
more notorious examples).
 
 
Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)