Lillian Faderman provided one of the most comprehensive studies of Boston marriages in Surpassing the Love of Men (1981).Faderman, Lillian. (1981.) Surpassing the Love of Men. New York: William Morrow and Company. . Twentieth-century film reviewers used the term to describe the Jewett-Fields relationship depicted in the 1998 documentary film Out of the Past. David Mamet's play Boston Marriage premiered in 2000 and helped popularize the term.
