Patience & Sarah is a historical romance whose drama was a touchstone for the burgeoning gay and women's activism of the late 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 in an edition of one thousand 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. They choose to live together and love each other freely, even though they know of no precedents for their relationship they must trust their own instincts and see beyond the disdain of their neighbors. Set in the nineteenth century, Isabel Miller's classic lesbian novel traces the relationship between Patience White, an educated painter, and Sarah Dowling, a cross-dressing farmer, whose romantic bond does not sit well with the puritanical New England farming community in which they live.
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