In May 1966, 20-year-old Frances “Frankie” McGrath attends a going-away party for her older brother, Finley, at her parents’ house on Coronado Island in California. Born into wealth and raised to valo
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The Empress
by Tanika Gupta
It is 1887 and 16-year-old ayah (nanny) Rani Das, originally from Kolkata, India, is eager to arrive in London. Rani is traveling to England to care for her boss Susan Matthews’s young children, and s
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A Jet Ring Sent
by John Donne
"A Jet Ring Sent" is John Donne's witty lament over an ill-fated love. The poem's speaker addresses the jet ring of the title—a present he sent to his beloved, but one that she has now returned to him
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