Richmond Read-along 90
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem from Stéphane Mallarmé, a French symbolist poet. Mallarmé's early life was blighted by tragedy, as first his mother,…
Richmond Read-along 89
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is from Montague Rhodes James, a British author and scholar best known for his many ghost stories. James also wrote several…
Richmond Read-along 88
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Minnie Bruce Pratt. Pratt is an American essayist, poet and activist, and a professor at Syracuse University…
Richmond Read-along 87
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is from Alexandre Dumas (père). Best known as the author of "The Three Musketeers" and "The Count of Monte Cristo," Dumas…
Richmond Read-along 86
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from Michael Field. Field is the pseudonym of the English writers Katharine Bradley and Edith Cooper, two of the literary figures…
Richmond Read-along 85
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's short story is a folk legend from Northumbria, retold by Jean and John Lang. Jean Lang wrote collections of fairytales, myths and legends.…
Richmond Read-along 84
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is from Helen Maria Williams. Williams was a poet, translator and novelist, who though born in England spent much of her life…
Horace Walpole (1717-1797) and Strawberry Hill – [Local History Notes: 18]
Some talk of Gunnersbury, For Sion some declare; And some say, that with Chiswick House No villa can compare; But all the beaux of Middlesex, Who know the country well,…
Richmond Read-along 83
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we're reading a short story from Ella D'Arcy. Trained in fine arts, which she then abandoned for writing, D'Arcy would continually rework her…
Richmond Read-along 82
Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's poem is by Jean Toomer. Toomer was a playwright, poet, novelist and critic, whose work was widely praised for its modern realism and…