Authors
"Good Morning, Miss Dove"
Frances Gray Patton
Liberty Hill's renowned geography teacher
Miss Dove
girl who is unable to define a horse and would carpet a room with representations of flowers; sentimental figure in "School of Facts"
Sissy Jupe
Laura's mother; wants to send party leftovers to the grieving family
Mrs. Sheridan
farmer who was still angry with a hired hand who had left during the busy season
Warren
"A School of Facts"
Charles Dickens
mischievous sixth grader who gives Miss Dove a kiss
Randy Baker
interested only in facts; says that horses on wallpaper and flowers on carpet are not tasteful because they are not factual
government official
riders who were bringing the good news to Aix
Joris and Dirck
Warren's wife
Mary
"The Garden Party"
Katherine Mansfield
Thomas Baker
sentimental girl who wants to cancel the party in "The Garden Party"
Laura
the narrator's horse; hero of poem
Roland
hired man who came "home" to die
Silas
"How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix"
Robert Browning
red-haired girl who observes that Randy's kiss was like pinning "a medal on Miss Dove"
Jincey Webb
carter who is killed in an accident
Mr. Scott
landlord's beautiful daughter, sacrificed her life to warn her love about the red-coat ambush
Bess
college student who helped on Warren's farm
Harold Wilson
The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver
Edna St. Vincent Millay
man of realities, as a director of a "model school," he wants children to learn only acts
Mr. Thomas Gradgrind
Laura's brother
Laurie
robber who was shot down in the road trying to avenge the death of his love
the highwayman
the lady in "The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" who wove clothes for her son
the mother