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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who along with Wordsworth ushered in the Romantic poetic movement. Coleridge was seen by…
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Illustration from McClure's Magazine by Edmund J. Sullivan Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is from Herminie Templeton Kavanagh. Kavanagh was born in Hampshire to an Irish…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece comes from poet Phillis Wheatley. Born in West Africa she was kidnapped in 1761 around the age of seven and sold to…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece comes from French author Guy de Maupassant. Born in northern France in 1850 he is considered a master of the short story.…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Walter de la Mare, one of the many illustrious residents of Richmond Borough past. De la Mare…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is a charming tale by Zona Gale, the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Gale decided that she…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem from Vita Sackville-West. Now best known for the impressive garden she nurtured at Sissinghurst, Sackville-West was an accomplished…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story by Sabine Baring-Gould. Baring-Gould was a deeply religious man who became ordained despite his family's original resistance,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by William Allingham. Born in Ireland, Allingham spent time in various parts of Ireland as a customs investigator…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a story from one of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books. Lang was a Scottish critic, poet, author, historian and folklorist. He…