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Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America

text Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America

Cleves, Rachel Hope

Summary
Explores the lives of Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake, two ordinary middle-class women who serve as a window on historical constructs of marriage, gender, and sexuality in late 18th-century and early 19th-century America. Both were born in Massach... Read more
Contents
A child of melancholy, 1777 -- Infantile days, 1784 -- O the example!, 1787 -- Mistress of a school, 1797 -- So many friends, 1799 -- Discontent and indifferent, 1800 -- Never to marry, 1800 -- Charity and mercy, 1805 -- Charity and Lydia, 1806 --... Read more
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xix, 267 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher
Oxford University Press 2014
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Woodmere (Main Branch) 306.8 CLE in Adult Non-fiction Available

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