Contents • • • • • • Origin of the term [ ] The fact of relatively formalized or between women predates the term 'Boston marriage' and there is a long record of it in England and other European countries. The term 'Boston marriage' became associated with 's (1886), a novel involving a long-term co-habiting relationship between two unmarried women, ',' although James himself never used the term. James' sister lived in such a relationship with and was among his sources for the novel. There are many examples of women in 'Boston marriage' relationships. In the late 1700s, for example, Anglo-Irish upper-class women Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby were identified as a couple and nicknamed the. Pivot Figure Naruto Pack. Elizabeth Mavor suggests that the institution of romantic friendships between women reached a zenith in eighteenth-century England. In the U. Wonderville Solar Energy Game. S., a prominent example is that of novelist and her companion, widow of the editor of, during the late 1800s.