*Two* Woman to Know: Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake
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This union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years. — Willem Cullen Bryant (image via Henry Sheldon Museum) In the 19th century, in the tiny town of Weybridge, Vt., Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant shared a house, a bank account, a tailoring business and a Sunday school class -- and, according to their letters, their diaries, even the headstone over their shared grave -- a love deeper than that of business partners and friends.
*Two* Woman to Know: Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake
*Two* Woman to Know: Charity Bryant and…
*Two* Woman to Know: Charity Bryant and Sylvia Drake
This union, no less sacred to them than the tie of marriage, has subsisted, in uninterrupted harmony, for more than forty years. — Willem Cullen Bryant (image via Henry Sheldon Museum) In the 19th century, in the tiny town of Weybridge, Vt., Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant shared a house, a bank account, a tailoring business and a Sunday school class -- and, according to their letters, their diaries, even the headstone over their shared grave -- a love deeper than that of business partners and friends.