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Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
Author
Rachel Hope Cleves
Content
xix + 267 + [8 photo] pp., ill., bibl., index
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York: Oxford University Press
Description
Biography of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, two middle-class women who met in Vermont in the early 19th century and considered themselves married.
Main subject
Autobiography and Biography
Lesbian Studies
ISBN
9780199335428 (cloth); 9780190627317 (pap.); 9780199335459 (ebook)
Citation
Cleves, Rachel Hope.
Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Sylvia. Accessed June 16, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2615.
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10-07-2024
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Journal of Women's History
30.1 (2018): 154–62
Publishers Weekly,
Mar. 31, 2014
Women's Review of Books,
Mar.–Apr. 2015, 31–32
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