Title: Patience & Sarah
First published: December 30, 2005
Description: "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." --Book Jacket.
Subjects: Fiction, lesbian, Lesbians, fiction, Fiction, historical, New england, fiction, Lesbians, Fiction, lesbian, Stonewall Book Awards, Fiction, historical, general, Lesbianism, LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall, Lesbian couples, collection:stonewall_book_award=pre-1990_winner