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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
Anne Askew
![Anne Askew](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: 1521
Died: July 26, 1546 (aged 25)
Bio: Anne Askew was an English poet and Protestant who was condemned as a heretic in England in the reign of King Henry VIII. She is the only woman on record known to have been both tortured in the Tower of London and burnt at the stake.