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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story from D. H. Lawrence. The author of the infamous "Lady Chatterley's Lover," banned in England until 1960,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from James Henry Leigh Hunt. Leigh Hunt led an eventful life, forming friendships with many other poets and influential figures, being…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story by Saki, the pseudonym of Hector Hugh Munro. Munro is known for his short stories, of which…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem comes from Robert Burns, possibly the best known British poet after Shakespeare. Born in the South of Scotland to a farming family,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's reading comes from Horace Walpole's "Hieroglyphic Tales." Walpole - a past resident of the Borough - is best known for building his beloved…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading Matsuo Basho. Matsuo Basho is the most famous Japanese poet of the Edo period, born in 1644 near Kyoto. After studying…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're looking to the much-beloved "The Wind in the Willows" stories. Scottish author Kenneth Grahame told his young son bedtime stories featuring the…
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Welcome to the fourth week of the Richmond Read-along! We're starting this week with Charles Baudelaire. As well as a poet, he was a noted art critic and translated much…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're looking at Virginia Woolf. Woolf may be famously remembered as part of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists, but between 1914…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from John Keats, one of the many poems he produced despite dying just after his 25th birthday. Keats originally trained as…