Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America by Rachel Hope Cleves

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

Rachel Hope Cleves

296 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction gender history lgbtqia+ hopeful informative slow-paced

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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-...

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