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Women who lived together during the suffrage movement were said to be practicing a Boston Marriage.

This was the term to refer to two single women living together, financially independent of men during the suffrage movement, which was approximately from the 1840s to the 1920s in the United States. Whether or not the relationship between the two women was romantic or no, is still debatable.

The term is said to be from the novel The Bostonians (1885-1886) by Henry James that relates the tale of an intimate companionship between two wealthy, Boston women.