Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

by Rachel Hope Cleves

Hardcover, 2014

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Publication

Oxford University Press (2014), Edition: 1, 296 pages

Description

Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of the extraordinary marriage of two ordinary early American women. Their story, drawn from the women's personal writings and other original documents, reveals that same-sex marriage is not as new as we think.

Awards

Lambda Literary Award (Finalist — 2015)
Stonewall Book Award (Honor Book — Non-Fiction — 2015)

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Physical description

296 p.; 9.3 inches

ISBN

0199335427 / 9780199335428
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