Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America (SIGNED COPY)
by: Rachel Hope Cleves

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 267 pages. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. From 1807 to 1851, two ordinary women, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake lived openly together as a married couple in Weybridge, Vermont. The story of these two women reveals that early America was both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society imagines. Clean, bright copy.