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

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY the detailed portrait Harris provides of a successful leader who used his power, influence, and talents in the service of art and culture. William S. Walker is Associate Professor of History at the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta). He is the author of A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. By Rachel Hope Cleves. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 268. $29.95.) Charity Bryant and Sylvia Davis lived together in the village of Weybridge, Vermont, for more than four decades beginning in 1807. They shared a home during that period. They shared a successful clothes-making business. They also shared a bed. Even today, the two women share a headstone, placed above their communal grave by members of their extended families soon after Davis followed Bryant into death. In short, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Davis very much behaved throughout their adult lives as if they were married to one another. What is more, a majority of their blood relatives— including William Cullen Bryant, Charity’s illustrious nephew—and a sizeable number of their small-town neighbors treated http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The New England Quarterly MIT Press

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

Johnson, Colin R.
The New England Quarterly , Volume 88 (1) – Mar 1, 2015
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© 2015 by The New England Quarterly
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0028-4866
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1937-2213
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10.1162/TNEQ_r_00442
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THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY the detailed portrait Harris provides of a successful leader who used his power, influence, and talents in the service of art and culture. William S. Walker is Associate Professor of History at the Cooperstown Graduate Program (SUNY Oneonta). He is the author of A Living Exhibition: The Smithsonian and the Transformation of the Universal Museum (University of Massachusetts Press, 2013). Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America. By Rachel Hope Cleves. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx, 268. $29.95.) Charity Bryant and Sylvia Davis lived together in the village of Weybridge, Vermont, for more than four decades beginning in 1807. They shared a home during that period. They shared a successful clothes-making business. They also shared a bed. Even today, the two women share a headstone, placed above their communal grave by members of their extended families soon after Davis followed Bryant into death. In short, Charity Bryant and Sylvia Davis very much behaved throughout their adult lives as if they were married to one another. What is more, a majority of their blood relatives— including William Cullen Bryant, Charity’s illustrious nephew—and a sizeable number of their small-town neighbors treated

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Published: Mar 1, 2015

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