Human Interest

They were a part of a growing group of women in antebellum New England who had decided they wouldn’t be happy married to the men who had courted them — and decided to seek fulfillment outside the home. 

The article explores the seemingly paradoxical connection between the idealization of love and marriage and the reluctance of many women to marry in nineteenth-century New England. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3789171?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents