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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xix, 267 pages, 7 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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 she turned 20, her father told her to leave the house. She worked as a schoolteacher, but was forced...
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