Important historical novel with lesbian characters based on real women. It was originally self published as A Place for Us. Includes afterword by Isabel Miller [pseudo of Alma Routsong].

Patience and Sarah

Literature & Fiction

Miller, Isabel

Literary

McGraw=Hill

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 . . .

Hart-Davis

Fawcett

<p>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 . . .</p>

Patience & Sarah

Contemporary

Winner of the 1969 American Library Assoc.'s first Gay Book Award One of the "Best 100 Best Gay and Lesbian Novels of All Time" (Publishing Triangle) Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated 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 in an edition of 1,000 copies, it garnered increasing attention to the point of receiving the American Library Association's first Gay Book Award. "Patience & Sarah" is a historical romance that was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s; it celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today. This edition features an appendix of supplementary materials, as well as an introduction by Emma Donoghue, whose numerous books include "Stirfry, Hood, " and "Life Mask, " which was shortlisted for a 2005 Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. Her 2010 novel "Room" was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and won the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. Little Sister's Classic edition now in its second printing!

Fawcett Books

Ballantine Books

<p>Complex family novel including the involved coming-out</p>

The Love of Good Women

United States

Naiad Pr

Side by Side

Patience & Sarah: Piano/Vocal Score

Howard, Ken

Kimper, Paula M.

Persons, Wende

Once In A Blue Moon Music Pub. Co.

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