It celebrates the joys of an uninhibited love between two strong women with a confident defiance that remains relevant today.įeatures an appendix of supplementary materials about Patience & Sarah and the author, as well as an introduction by acclaimed novelist Emma Donoghue. Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and womens activism of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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. McGraw-Hill's version of the book a year later brought it to mainstream bookstores across the country. Ultimately, they are forced to make life-changing decisions that depend on their courage and their commitment to one another.įirst 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. In the early nineteenth century, in a puritanical New England town, two women fall in love. 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. Set in the 19th century, Isabel Millers classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a farmers daughter, whose romantic bond does.

Patience & Sarah by Isabel Miller