History and Scholarship
Boston Marriage Links
A page with many links relating to Boston Marriage, the 19th-century practice of women friends living together long-term.
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology: Friendship
Short encyclopedia article about friendship.
Iolaus: An Anthology of Friendship
A reprint of a 1908 treatise on historical friendship customs.
Sarah Orne Jewett and Annie Adams Fields: Boston Marriage and the Cultural Nexus
An article focusing on the Boston Marriage (19th-century practice of committed friendship) between Sarah Jewett and Annie Fields.
The Misguided Search for 'Homoeroticism': A Plea for Research on Friendship
An essay discussing the debate over whether same-sex relationships in historical documents were gay relationships or nonsexual friendships, and arguing that historians often label …
Xena and Gabrielle: A Revisitation of the Classic Romantic Friendship
This site explores the history of "Romantic Friendship" (the 15th-through-19th-century practice of intense yet nonsexual same-sex love) and the possibility that televisio…
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