Society & Culture
For Pride Month, we're dropping some of our favorite past episodes back into the podcast feed every Wednesday this month. Enjoy! A new form of relationship known as "Boston Marriages" arose between 19th century women, which had all the emotional trappings of romantic love, but was long considered to be merely an intense form of friendship. More recently, however, critics have wondered whether Victorian assumptions about the inherent chasteness of womankind allowed couples who would consider themselves lesbians today to hide in plain sight. Full show notes: http://www.hubhistory.com/episodes/boston-marriages-in-literature-and-life-episode-136/