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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Amos Bronson Alcott
Born: November 29, 1799
Died: March 4, 1888 (aged 88)
Bio: Amos Bronson Alcott was an American teacher, writer, philosopher, and reformer. As an educator, Alcott pioneered new ways of interacting with young students, focusing on a conversational style, and avoided traditional punishment.
Known for:
- Concord Days (1872)
- Conversations With Children on the Gospel (1836)
- Sonnets And Canzonets (1882)
- Notes of Conversations, 1848-1875
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1882)
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