Patience & Sarah - Softcover

Miller, Isabel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449909301 ISBN 13: 9780449909300

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994

Synopsis

In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. With no one to guide or support them, Patience and Sarah try to follow their hearts. Defying society and history, they buy a farm and discover they can live together, away from the world that had sought to limit them and their love . . .

About this title

From the Publisher:

Nearly thirty years ago, when Patience and Sarah first came into the world, it was a very rare book, indeed -- the story of the love between two women, not only issued by a mainstream publisher but with a happy ending, yet! Isabel Miller based her novel on what little is known of the folk painter Mary Ann Willson and her companion, Miss Brundidge, who lived and farmed together for many years in New York State's Greene County in the early part of the nineteenth century. It's a tender tale that unfolds gently as the two women recognize and marvel at the love that has unfolded in their lives. Times have changed, and similar stories are routinely published today by houses large and small. But every once in a while, I come across my original, very battered, copy of the very first Fawcett Crest edition on my shelf. And, incurable romantic that I am, I remember what it was like to read Patience and Sarah for the first time -- and to dream. I'm pleased to know that this lovely tale is still in print, all these years later, for an entirely new generation of young lesbians to discover.

About the Author:

Isabel Miller is the pen name of Alma Routsong, author of several books and a collection of short stories. Born in Michigan, Routsong became a published author in 1953, and began writing openly as a lesbian in the mid-1960s. She died in 1996.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0449909301
• ISBN 13: 9780449909300
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182