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

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Author

Rachel Hope Cleves

Publisher URL

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/charity-and-sylvia-9780199335428?cc=us&lang=en&


The book overturns conventional notions that same-sex marriage is new. It presents evidence that the union between Charity and Sylvia was regarded as a marriage or something like it in the early nineteenth century.
This is the only history of a marriage between two American women before the Civil War.
The book draws on new and seldom-studied sources to add an unknown story to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Regional (New England) interest; strong local history market, esp. Mass. and Vermont