Mary Gove Nichols

"her autobiographical novel, Mary Lyndon, or, Revelations of a Life made the first case in print against marriage from a woman's point of view." the character's wedding vows said "'I enter into no compact to be faithful to you. I only promise to be faithful to the deepest love of my heart. If that love is yours, it will bear fruit for you and enrich your life--our life. If my love leads you from me, I must go.' :3747"Mary appears to have always remained faithful to Thomas, however. :3747

Lived in Modern Times until Josiah Warren, who was not a supporter of Free Love, and who felt that the Nicholses were "attempting to speak for the villate-the greatest heresy against individual sovereignty he could imagine," posted his stance against free love on the community bulletin board and asked all who agreed to sign it, soon the Nichols were leaving the community :3764

The couple later moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where they appear to have dropped Free Love for celibacy and were "attempting to form a Shaker-like community based on chastity." :3764

In 1857 they converted to Roman Catholicism. :3764