Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 84 Page 85 Page 86 Page 87 Page 88 Page 89 Page 90 Page 91 Page 92 Page 93 Page 94 Page 95 Page 96 Page 97 Page 98 Page 99 Page 100JamesThomas Fields,Nathaniel Hawthorne, andWilliam DavisTicknor Not using 3M Scotchtint Window Film can leave quite an impression. MAINE SUN SOLUTIONS • (207) 781-9917 • MESUN@MAINE.RR.COM TM TM 5 Depot Street, Suite 11 Freeport, ME 04032 207-865-0779 www.freeportknife.com With unique gifts to entertain and please the chef. D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 6 3 9 was published in 1888, found to ‘catch at’ in the friendship between the Charles Street ladies we can only guess.’ The implication here is that the latent lesbian relationship between the characters Olive Chancellor and Verena Tarrant which James satirized in the novel was based on the Jewett-Fields liaison. There are in fact some parallels be- tween the two couples: Olive was older than Verena, more aristocratic; Fields was also older and more urbane than Jewett, a na- tive of rural Maine. Without commenting on this possibility, Leon Edel claims that James was merely reflecting the attitudes of his time in depicting the women so harsh- ly. Nan Bauer Maglin argues that The Bos- tonians was an attempt to discredit the suf- frage movement “with the charge of `les- bianism’ or perhaps only `intense relation- shipism.’” Jewett in fact knew of the intense relationship that existed between Henry’s sister Alice and Katherine Loring, com- menting in a letter how ‘Alice James’s go- ing has made a great empty place in [Kath- erine’s] life.’” voicing the silence issing from our 21st-century van- tage is the atmosphere in which passions of the times operated. Victorian society left little room for expres- sion of even heterosexual love, let alone pas- sion, except quietly in the privacy of a mari- tal bedroom. But while physical relationships between men were considered an outrage, physical intimacies between women did not carry the same stigma. “Female homosexuality was almost in- conceivable to the public mind until the term ‘sexual inversion,’ a coinage by sexol-