Quote of the day
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
Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun
Born: 1655
Died: 1716 (aged 61)
Bio: Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun was a Scottish writer and politician, remembered as an advocate for the non-incorporation of Scotland, and an opponent of the 1707 Act of Union between Scotland and England.
Known for:
- The political works of Salton
- Allegory: The Theory of a Symbolic Mode
- The Topological Imagination
- Invasion of the Saucer People