Patience & Sarah
"Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another." "First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold…
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- Full title :Patience & Sarah / Isabel Miller.
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"Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, a painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another." "First self-published in 1969 (titled A Place for Us) in an edition of 1,000 copies, the author hand-sold the book on New York street corners; it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award in 1971. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country." "Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the 1960s and early 1970s. It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today."--Jacket.
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- Publication Date:2005.
- Edition:First Arsenal Pulp Press edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Arsenal Pulp Press
- Place of Publication:Vancouver
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
Notes
First published under title: A place for us.
The Physical Object
- Description:240 pages : : illustrations, facsimiles ; : 21 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1551521911, 9781551521916, 9781439554784, 1439554781
- oclc:ocm60833903
- LC Classification:PS3563.I39
- Dewey Decimal:813/.54
Table of Contents
Introduction by Emma Donoghue -- Patience and Sarah -- Appendices -- Patience and Sarah Come to Live by Elizabeth Deran -- Early manuscript pages -- Cover of A Place for Us -- Correspondence -- Frontierswomen in Love by Bell Gail Chevigny -- Opera maretials -- Alma Routsong obituary by Edward Field.
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