Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America
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Conventional wisdom holds that same-sex marriage is a purely modern
innovation, a concept born of an overtly modern lifestyle that was
unheard of in nineteenth century America. But as Rachel Hope Cleves
demonstrates in this eye-opening book, same-sex marriage is hardly
new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A
brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her
own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age
twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling 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 a pious and studious young woman
named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity
decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their
own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized,
essentially, as a married couple. 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 their many nieces and nephews. Charity and
Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four
year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including
diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp
detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that
turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and
reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more
accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia
is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT
history in early America.
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