Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America / Rachel Hope Cleves.
Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America / Rachel Hope Cleves.
Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America / Rachel Hope Cleves.
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Call Numbers
G 2015/956
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Language
English
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Physical content
xix, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Preface -- 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 -- Charity and Sylvia, February 1807 -- The...
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Publisher
New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2014]
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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 Massachusetts, but in different towns, 11 years apart. Charity's attachment to women was so blatant that after...
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Charity and Sylvia : a same-sex marriage in early America / Rachel Hope Cleves.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-254) and index.
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G 2015/956
Record Identifier
74VKO4jdOlRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKO4jdOlRZ
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ISBN
0199335435
9780199335428 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0199335427 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9780199335442
0199335443
9780199335459
0199335451
9780199335435
DDC
306.84/8
MMS ID
991022624329702626
