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Between Women: Friendship, Desire and Marriage in Victorian England
by Sharon Marcus.
Princeton, 356 pp., £12.95, March 2007,978 0 691 12835 1 Show More
by Sharon Marcus.
Princeton, 356 pp., £12.95, March 2007,
“... This ‘matrilineal, incestuous, adulterous, polygamous, homosexual household’, as Sharon Marcus describes it in Between Women, was not, however, ‘branded as deviant’. Cushman was indeed ‘unimpeachable’. Female marriages like hers, in which couples called each other ‘sposa’, ‘wedded wife’ and ‘hubbie’, and whose ... ”