Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of two ordinary women
who lived in an extraordinary same-sex marriage during the early
nineteenth century. Based on diaries, letters, and poetry, among
other original documents, the research traces the women's lives in
sharp detail. Charity Bryant was born in 1777 to a consumptive
mother who died a month later. Raised in Massachusetts, Charity
developed into a brilliant and strong-willed woman with a passion
for her own sex. After being banished from her family home by her
father at age twenty, she traveled throughout Massachusetts,
working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming
the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still
defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont.
There she met Sylvia Drake, a pious and studious young woman whose
family had moved to the frontier village after losing their
Massachusetts farm during the Revolution. The two soon became so
inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. Sylvia
came to join her on July 3, 1807, commencing a forty-four year
union that lasted until Charity's death. Over the years, the women
came to be recognized as a married couple, or something like it.
Charity took the role of husband, and Sylvia of wife, within the
marriage. 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 more than one
hundred nieces and nephews. Most extraordinary, all the while the
sexual potential of their union remained an open secret, cloaked in
silence to preserve their reputations. The story of Charity and
Sylvia overturns today's conventional wisdom that same-sex marriage
is a modern innovation, and reveals that early America was both
more diverse and more accommodating than modern society imagines.
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