Thus rises one more Christmas … A new sadness…For those who suffer. New delicacies; from the harp new vibrating melodies around the banquets of the rich.
“One More Christmas” [Mais um Natal] | Domingos Fonseca [Trans. Stephen Basdeo]
Poetry: I Had a Tender Mother Once
One of my favourite writers of the nineteenth century was George William MacArthur Reynolds. Although we know him primarily as a journalist and novelist today, he composed original poetry in practically all of his novels.
New York’s 19th-Century Underclass: The Work of Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914) | Stephen Basdeo
Stephen Basdeo takes a look at the life of one of New York’s pioneering social reformers, Jacob A. Riis.