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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…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Jessie Redmon Fauset, an influential literary figure in the 1920s and 30s. Having graduated from Cornell University…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today is the 221st anniversary of Honoré de Balzac's birth, so we are reading one of his short stories. Balzac revolutionised the novel, with…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem from T. S. Eliot. A widely respected poet and critic, Eliot is regarded as almost single-handedly changing the…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a short story from Franz Kafka. Kafka wrote everything from fragments a few sentences long to his deliberately unfinished novels,…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today we are reading a poem by Rainer Maria Rilke. Born in 1875, Rilke was sent to military school - a miserable place for…
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Welcome back to the Richmond Read-along! Today's piece is a short story from George Gissing. A writer with a complicated life, Gissing is viewed by some to be one of…