Charity and Sylvia a same-sex marriage in early America
Explores the lives of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, two ordinary middle-class women who serve as a window on historical constructs of marriage, gender, and sexuality in late 18th-century and early 19th-century America. Both were born in Massachusetts, but in different towns, 11 years apart. Chari...
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Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- A child of melancholy, 1777
- Infantile days, 1784
- O the example!, 1787
- Mistress of a school, 1797
- So many friends, 1799
- Discontent and indifferent, 1800
- Never to marry, 1800
- Charity and Mercy, 1805
- Charity and Lydia, 1806
- Charity and Sylvia, February 1807
- The tie that binds, July 1807
- Their own dwelling, 1809
- Wild affections, 1811
- Miss Bryant was the man, 1820
- Dear aunts, 1823
- Stand fast in one spirit, 1828
- Diligent in business, 1835
- The cure of her I love, 1839
- Sylvia Drake / W, 1851
- Afterword.
