Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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| Rating | : | 4.65 (572 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0199335427 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-10-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Wow, I was't expecting a term paper. Made Mary Jo Aronica Wow , I was't expecting a term paper . Made it through maybe 100 pages before giving up and can't believe the price I paid for the kindle version. If you are doing research, this might be just what you are looking for ; otherwise don't bother .. History done right The story of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake -- members of the founding generation and friends, lovers and partners in business and life -- has finally been told right. Although the author has to do some reading between the lines, I believe her conclusions are dead on. The au. "Live and Let Live" according to MartyOBX. Amazingly well researched and fascinating love story as well as historical, social and psychological expose. The love and devotion these two women had for each other and their families was inspiring, moving, and sad at times. The personal and spiritual turmoil they grappled w
Rachel Hope Cleves is Associate Professor of History, University of Victoria
But as Rachel Hope Cleves demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly new. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews.Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.. Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was unheard of in nineteenth century America. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilli
I found that deeply fascinating and highly entertaining. "Rachel Hope Cleves offers a lyrical portrait of a same-sex marriage in this new book. We then move back and forth in narrative, but Cleves never lets us forget the time and space that her subjects inhabited, the social mores, the historical aspects, nor the seemingly-inconsistent attitudes toward romance and sex that our forebears held and that which we've been led to believe they had. With chaste retelling and its abundant details, Charity & Sylvia is your grandmother's book - and yours, too." --Washington Blade"With Charity and Sylvia Cleves has stitched together a coherent, captivating account, on