A union like ours : the love story of F.O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney / Scott Bane.

By:

Bane, Scott Leslie, 1967- [author.]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781613769126
1613769121
9781613769119
1613769113

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Union like ours.DDC classification:

810.9 B 23/eng/20220204

LOC classification:

PS29.M35

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

Prologue: Do the Dead Choose Their Biographers? -- The Search for Companionship -- "Between the Old and the New" -- Falling in Love : The Exuberant Years -- A Star Is Born -- Making a Home in Kittery -- Shining in a Dark Time : Politics and Painting in the Depression -- In Sickness and in Health : The Hartford Retreat, McLean Hospital, and Baldpate Hospital -- The Green Light across the Piscataqua -- Losing Touch : Life without Cheney -- Aftermath and Afterglow -- Epilogue: Getting Married After All.

Summary: "After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F.O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression. During a hospital stay, years into their relationship, Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that "never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me. Every day is a new discovery of your wealth." Situating the couple's private correspondence alongside other sources, Scott Bane tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States. From the vantage point of the present day, with marriage equality enacted into law, Bane provides a window into the realities faced by same-sex couples in the early twentieth century, as they maintained relationships in the face of overt discrimination and the absence of legal protections"-- Provided by publisher

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"After a chance meeting aboard the ocean liner Paris in 1924, Harvard University scholar and activist F.O. Matthiessen and artist Russell Cheney fell in love and remained inseparable until Cheney's death in 1945. During the intervening years, the men traveled throughout Europe and the United States, achieving great professional success while contending with serious personal challenges, including addiction, chronic disease, and severe depression. During a hospital stay, years into their relationship, Matthiessen confessed to Cheney that "never once has the freshness of your life lost any trace of its magic for me. Every day is a new discovery of your wealth." Situating the couple's private correspondence alongside other sources, Scott Bane tells the remarkable story of their relationship in the context of shifting social dynamics in the United States. From the vantage point of the present day, with marriage equality enacted into law, Bane provides a window into the realities faced by same-sex couples in the early twentieth century, as they maintained relationships in the face of overt discrimination and the absence of legal protections"-- Provided by publisher

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