Married publisher and publicist George P. Putnam at his mother's house in Noank, Connecticut.
On February 7, 1931, Amelia Earhart married George Palmer Putnam, the publisher and publicist who had orchestrated her rise to fame following the 1928 transatlantic flight, at the home of Putnam's mother in Noank, Connecticut.
Earhart had reportedly refused Putnam's proposals multiple times before accepting, and on their wedding day she gave him a remarkable letter articulating her ambivalence about conventional marriage, insisting on a partnership of mutual freedom rather than traditional domestic obligation. She wrote of not wanting to 'hold you to any medieval code of faithfulness' and requested that if the marriage proved unhappy, he release her within a year.
Putnam, in turn, became not only her husband but her business manager, promoter, and closest collaborator, coordinating her flights, book contracts, lecture tours, and public appearances. Their marriage was, by the standards of the era, notably progressive — Earhart retained her own name professionally and continued to be addressed as 'Miss Earhart' in correspondence and press.
The marriage reflects Earhart's broader philosophy on gender equality, which she extended beyond aviation into her personal life, insisting on partnership rather than subordination — an outlook that made her an icon of independence for women well beyond the cockpit.