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Anya Jabour

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Anya Jabour is Regents Professor of History and Director of the Public History Program at the University of Montana. She is a regular contributor to the Washington Post's "Made by History" column. Her scholarship has been featured in the New York Times, the Huffington Post, and the Washington Post. Her most recent book, Sophonisba Breckinridge: Championing Women's Activism in Modern America, was released in 2019. She is currently working on a biography of Katharine Bement Davis. Follow her at @anya_jabour.
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Same-sex “smashes” or “crushes” — ranging from one-sided adoration to mutual devotion — were common at women’s colleges in Victorian America.

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In the Victorian Era, Valentine’s Day Was a Celebration of Same-Sex Romance

Such "smashes" were encouraged when women were considered "passionless."

By Anya Jabour
"The Perfect Little Ladies" was a social club of single women in Rochester, New York, who chose friendship and careers over marriage and motherhood. They loved exploring the outdoors and several of them bought islands in Georgian Bay in the early 1900s.

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A Paradise for Single Ladies

These adventurous turn-of-the-century women announced their independence by buying their own islands in Ontario's Georgian Bay.

By Anya Jabour

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