The Vault at Pfaff's

An Archive of Art and Literature by the Bohemians of Antebellum New York

The Wedding-Ring

D. D. "The Wedding-Ring." New-York Saturday Press, June 19, 1860, 1, 4.
Electronic Source Available
Type
newspaper
Genre
short fiction
Abstract

A very independent woman rescues a drowning man, and falls in love with him. They get married, but the wife comes to see the wedding ring as a constraint, and she begins to detest it. She reveals her feelings to her husband, who allows her to throw the ring into the river.