Boston marriage
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A Boston marriage was, historically, the cohabitation of two women who were independent of financial support from a man. The term is said to have been in use in New England in the United States in the
Sarah Ponsonby and Lady Eleanor Butler, also known as the Ladies of Llangollen, lived together in a Boston marriage.
Katharine Coman and Katharine Lee Bates lived together in a Wellesley marriage for 25 years.
Romantic friendship
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A romantic friendship is a very close but typically non-sexual relationship between friends, often involving a degree of physical closeness beyond that which is common in contemporary Western societie
Boston marriage
…States in the late 19th–early 20th century. Some of these relationships were romantic in nature; others were not. The fact of relatively formalized romantic friendships or life partnerships between women predates the term Boston marriage and there is a long record of it in England and other European countries. The term…
Shimer College founders Cindarella Gregory and Frances Shimer in 1869; their extremely close relationship has been characterized as a "passionate friendship".