Charity & Sylvia Hardcover

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An openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermonta true story, as told by Tillie Walden.

The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed woman with few prospects, she is residing with and caring for her sisters rambunctious family. Today the house is abuzz awaiting a guestCharity Bryant. A friend of the family, she is most known for her elegant letters, with their swoopy and evocative penmanship and carefully chosen prose. But Charitys visit is a guise, she is coming to Vermont to start over after heartbreak and rumoursso many rumoursthat have grown too loud back in Massachusetts.

The true, exceptional story of these remarkable women is brought to life with humor and passion by the unparalleled and award-winning Tillie Walden (On A Sunbeam). We see America grow alongside these women over a period that brings about the railroad, many novels, 14 Presidents, riots, rebellion, plagues, and poetry. Based on extensive archives of their writing, Charity and Sylvia is a groundbreaking biography that is also the story of 19th century America.