Patience and Sarah

Miller, Isabel [=Alma Routsong]

ISBN 10: 0246105585 / ISBN 13: 9780246105585

Published by Hart-Davis, London, 1972

About this Item

Hardcover with dust jacket, 215p ; 22 cm. Good/very good, jacket bit ragged at the edges and tear at the back, name previous owner on first free leave. First UK edition. Originally privately published as 'A place for us'. New York: Bleecker Street Press, 1969.

Seller Inventory # JHJ_2026_05_11_1

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patience and Sarah
• Publisher: Hart-Davis, London
• Publication Date: 1972
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0246105585
• ISBN 13: 9780246105585
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

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 . . .

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.