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In the early 19th century, two women managed to live life as a married couple for decades in Vermont.
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Sources:
- Albers, Jan. “Sylvia and Charity: A Vermont Love Story for the Ages.” Addison Independent. April 2009.
- Bryant, William Cullen. Letters of a Traveller. 1850.
- Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-sex Marriage in Early America. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Engisch, Mary Williams. “New Roadside Marker in Weybridge Commemorates 1800s Same-Sex Couple.” Vermont Public, June 20, 2025. vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-20/roadside-marker-weybridge-commemorates-1800s-same-sex-couple.
- Lawson, J. “‘Sapphic Sedition’: Lesbians and Law in the 1921 Criminal Law Amendment Act |.” The Law Bod Blog, June 20, 2025. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/2025/06/20/sapphic-sedition-lesbians-and-law-in-the-1921-criminal-law-amendment-act/.
In the early 19th century, two women managed to live life as a married couple for decades in Vermont.
➤Support this channel with my Patreon!: patreon.com/emperortigerstar
Sources:
- Albers, Jan. “Sylvia and Charity: A Vermont Love Story for the Ages.” Addison Independent. April 2009.
- Bryant, William Cullen. Letters of a Traveller. 1850.
- Cleves, Rachel Hope. Charity and Sylvia: A Same-sex Marriage in Early America. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Engisch, Mary Williams. “New Roadside Marker in Weybridge Commemorates 1800s Same-Sex Couple.” Vermont Public, June 20, 2025. vermontpublic.org/local-news/2025-06-20/roadside-marker-weybridge-commemorates-1800s-same-sex-couple.
- Lawson, J. “‘Sapphic Sedition’: Lesbians and Law in the 1921 Criminal Law Amendment Act |.” The Law Bod Blog, June 20, 2025. blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/lawbod/2025/06/20/sapphic-sedition-lesbians-and-law-in-the-1921-criminal-law-amendment-act/.
