As the United States marches — hopefully — onward toward full recognition of same-sex marriage, author Rachel Hope Cleves takes a look back at one lesbian couple’s lives when the U.S. was still a nation in its infancy. Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake spent 44 years in the early 1800s living and working — and, Cleve says, loving — together in Weybridge, Vermont.
Read Laura Miller‘s review of Cleves’ scholarly work, Charity and Sylvia, at Salon.com.
