America's Answer to Anne Lister?

I'm blogging a new book starting today, which will probably run for about ten days worth of posts. The early 19th century romance of Charity and Sylvia is "unique" only in how well documented it was, due to both being prolific correspondents, both being poets (a context for recording their emotional lives in more detail than might otherwise have happened), and due to their families being supportive enough of their "marriage" to have turned their papers over to a local historian rather than destroying them (though much of their correspondence had been destroyed at various crucial points in their lives). Like many other iconic f/f couples, studying their lives is important not simply for the particularity, but also for what it says about the possibilities for women generally. (And--as with Anne Lister--for the incidental documentation of a wider informal network of women whose romantic interests were for other women.)