Editing Richmond Park (section)

===Literature===

====Novels====

[[George MacDonald]]'s novel ''The Marquis of Lossie'' (published in London in 1877 by [[Hurst and Blackett]])<ref name="Rees">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ORW9F05auG0C&q=Hurst+and+Blackett+1877+The+Marquis+of+Lossie&pg=PA153 | title=George MacDonald | publisher=[[Gale (publisher)#Imprints|Twayne Publishers Inc]] | location = New York|author=Richard H Rees | year=1972 | page=153}}</ref> has a chapter entitled "Richmond Park".<ref name="Lossie">{{cite web | url=http://www.online-literature.com/george-macdonald/marquis-of-lossie/22/ | title=Chapter 22: Richmond Park, The Marquis of Lossie | author=[[George MacDonald]] | website= The Literature Network|access-date=14 February 2024}}</ref>

In [[Georgette Heyer]]'s [[Regency romance]] ''[[Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle]]'' (1957) there is an expedition to Richmond Park.<ref name="Sylvester">{{cite book | title=Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle | publisher=[[William Heinemann]] | author=Georgette Heyer | year=1957 | location=London|pages=193 and 197| title-link=Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle | author-link=Georgette Heyer }}</ref>

Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park is the scene of a picnic and a child's disappearance in  [[Chris Cleave]]'s 2008 novel ''[[The Other Hand]]''.<ref>[[Chris Cleave]] (2008). ''[[The Other Hand]]'' (American title ''Little Bee''). London: [[Hodder & Stoughton]] paperback, pp. 300–333.</ref> Richmond Park features in [[Jacqueline Wilson]]'s novel ''[[Lily Alone]]'' (2010) and in the poetry anthology she edited, ''Green Glass Beads'' (2011).<ref name="Wilson">{{cite web | url= https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/youngreporter/9387275.poems-in-richmond-park/ | title=Poems in Richmond Park | work=Richmond Guardian | date=26 November 2011 | access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>

Novelist [[Shena Mackay]] was commissioned by The Royal Parks to write a short story about Richmond Park named ''The Running of the Deer'' which was published in 2009.<ref name="Flood">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/feb/17/royal-parks-stories-will-self |title=Bespoke short stories commissioned for London's royal parks |last=Alison Flood |date=17 February 2009 |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=29 January 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-running-of-the-deer/shena-mackay/9780955876165 |title=The Running of the Deer: Richmond Park – Park Stories Bk. 7 (Paperback)|website= Waterstones|access-date = 8 February 2025}}</ref>

[[Anthony Horowitz]]'s 2014 novel ''[[Moriarty (novel)|Moriarty]]'', about [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s character in his [[Sherlock Holmes]] stories, includes a scene set in Richmond Park.<ref name="Moriarty">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-uFRAwAAQBAJ&q=moriarty+horowitz+richmond+park&pg=PT219 | title=Moriarty | publisher=[[Orion Publishing Group|Orion]] | author=Anthony Horowitz | year=2014 | isbn=978-1-4091-0947-1| author-link=Anthony Horowitz }}</ref>

====Poetry====
[[Joseph Coelho]]'s 2017 poetry anthology ''Overheard in a Tower Block'' includes a poem for children, "Richmond Park".<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2022 |title=Richmond Park |url=https://www.frp.org.uk/richmond-park-a-poem-by-joseph-coelho/ |access-date=6 February 2025 |website=Friends of Richmond Park}}</ref>

====Non-fiction====
''A Hind in Richmond Park'' by [[William Henry Hudson]], published in 1922 and republished in 2006, is an extended [[natural history]] essay. It includes an account of his visits to Richmond Park and a particular occasion when a young girl was struck by a red deer when she tried to feed it an acorn.<ref name="Hudson">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/hindinrichmondpa00hud | title=A Hind in Richmond Park | author=William Henry Hudson| publisher=[[J. M. Dent|J M Dent and Sons Ltd]] | date=1922 | access-date=23 August 2018| author-link=William Henry Hudson }}</ref>