Mary Barnard, American Imagist

A leveled Reader based on an episode from the PBS KIDS television series Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum starring Mary Shelley.

Who was the real Mary mother of Jesus?

Her curious ways attracted gossip right into her final years when she raised a mysterious dark-skinned child at her home in Berkeley Square.

Anne Barnard's verse was celebrated by Walter Scott but she was also a brilliant and indefatigable diarist.