Charity and Sylvia Amy Spalding author of Real Queer America

author of Real Queer America

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Charity and Sylvia Amy Spalding author of Real Queer AmericaAn openly Lesbian couple survives and thrives in 19th century Vermont a true story, as told by Tillie Walden The month is February in the year 1807. The place is Weybridge, Vermont: small, cold, lonely, and beautiful. Sylvia Drake is exhausted. As an unwed woman with few prospects, she is residing with and caring for her sister's rambunctious family. Today the house is abuzz awaiting a guest Charity Bryant. A friend of the family, she is most known