Between Women

Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

Sharon Marcus

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Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender outlaws. Their desires were fanned by consumer culture, and their friendships and unions were accepted and even encouraged by family, society, and church. Far from being sexless angels defined only by male desires, Victorian women openly enjoyed looking at and even dominating other women. Their friendships helped realize the ideal of companionate love between men and women celebrated by novels, and their unions influenced politicians and social thinkers to reform marriage law.


Through a close examination of literature, memoirs, letters, domestic magazines, and political debates, Marcus reveals how relationships between women were a crucial component of femininity. Deeply researched, powerfully argued, and filled with original readings of familiar and surprising sources, Between Women overturns everything we thought we knew about Victorian women and the history of marriage and family life. It offers a new paradigm for theorizing gender and sexuality--not just in the Victorian period, but in our own.

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Can You Forgive Her?, Queer, The Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine, I Wish (manhwa), Marriage, Governess, Publication, Gender Trouble, Sentimental Education, The Erotic, Aurora Leigh, Same-sex relationship, Adultery, Slavery, Virginia Woolf, Lilian Whiting, John Stuart Mill, Emily Faithfull, Gender role, Anthony Trollope, Marriage plot, Mrs., Kate Field, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Infatuation, Mary Somerville, Homoeroticism, Lesbian, Novelist, Charlotte Cushman, The History of Sexuality, Victorian era, Miss Havisham, Harriet Hosmer, Narrative, Victorian fashion, Mother, Poetry, Kinship, Matilda Hays, Victorian literature, Aunt, Feminism, Man and Wife (novel), Judith Butler, Sodomy, Fashion plate, The Marriage Plot, Courtship, Pornography, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, George Eliot, Spouse, Estella (Great Expectations), Rosa Bonheur, Eroticism, Incest, Frances Power Cobbe, Literature, Writing, Roland Barthes, Spinster, Anne Lister, Promiscuity, Masculinity, Feminism (international relations), Sexual desire, Femininity, Sympathy