Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Collections of the Vermont Historical Society
Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Charity and Sylvia
Author: Rachel Hope ClevesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199335451
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
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-sex marriage is hardly new. Born in 1777, Charity Bryant was raised in Massachusetts. A brilliant and strong-willed woman with a clear attraction for her own sex, Charity found herself banished from her family home at age twenty. She spent the next decade of her life traveling throughout Massachusetts, working as a teacher, making intimate female friends, and becoming the subject of gossip wherever she lived. At age twenty-nine, still defiantly single, Charity visited friends in Weybridge, Vermont. There she met a pious and studious young woman named Sylvia Drake. The two soon became so inseparable that Charity decided to rent rooms in Weybridge. In 1809, they moved into their own home together, and over the years, came to be recognized, essentially, as a married couple. Revered by their community, Charity and Sylvia operated a tailor shop employing many local women, served as guiding lights within their church, and participated in raising their many nieces and nephews. Charity and Sylvia is the intimate history of their extraordinary forty-four year union. Drawing on an array of original documents including diaries, letters, and poetry, Cleves traces their lives in sharp detail. Providing an illuminating glimpse into a relationship that turns conventional notions of same-sex marriage on their head, and reveals early America to be a place both more diverse and more accommodating than modern society might imagine, Charity and Sylvia is a significant contribution to our limited knowledge of LGBT history in early America.
Collections Of The Vermont Historical Society; Volume 2
Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN: 9781022272941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Vermont Historical Gazetteer
Author: Abby Maria HemenwayPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3382122189
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Collections of the Vermont Historical Society
Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781290549738
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Seven Years of Grace
Author: Sara RathPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934720663
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A well-researched historical novel about Achsa Sprague (1827-1862), a Vermont woman and itinerant medium who gave popular lectures on Spiritualism, the abolition of slavery, women's rights, and prison reform.
Collections of the Vermont Historical Society
Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages :
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Collections of the Vermont Historical Society
Author: Vermont Historical SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The Vermont Historical Gazetteer
Author: Abby Maria HemenwayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vermont
Languages : en
Pages : 1136
Book Description
Print Town
Author: Michael William FlemingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780934720755
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
"Print Town is a product of the Brattleboro Words Project: a community-driven, collaborative effort to showcase the unique richness and diversity of the people and places; the land and water; and the history of words that, for centuries, have made this region a home for storytellers, writers, scholars, printers, and publishers. brattleborowords.org"--