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 November 7, 2025. https://sylvia.library.wisc.edu/catalog/SYL2615.
Updated: 10-07-2024

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