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

from rivkat

In the first post-Revolutionary generation, Charity and Sylvia met each other—one after a few earlier love affairs, one apparently falling in love for the first time—and pretty immediately moved in together (cue jokes); they never left each other again. Their letters and even some public writing ...

from banjo123

We read this for my Lesbian book group, not the best choice, because most of the group found it very dry. It is academic. It apparently won a prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic---they are the kind of historians who study shopping lists, I think. Actually, I did l...

from majesdane

4.5 stars, rounded up. This is a finely researched book -- with some excellent delving into the queer-coded dialogue of the 1700s/1800s (whether it be in literature, poetry, or even the writing of letters) -- that sheds light on a little known lesbian couple that lived together for decades in Ver...

from majesdane

4.5 stars, rounded up. This is a finely researched book -- with some excellent delving into the queer-coded dialogue of the 1700s/1800s (whether it be in literature, poetry, or even the writing of letters) -- that sheds light on a little known lesbian couple that lived together for decades in Ver...