Public-domain archive · 1870
Joseph and His Friend
by Bayard Taylor
A young Pennsylvania farmer's unhappy marriage and intense bond with another man unfold against the pressures of family, property, and nineteenth-century respectability.
Why it belongs here
Frequently discussed as one of the earliest American novels to portray a romantic attachment between men, it offers a revealing bridge between coded friendship and queer literary history.
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