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
Charles Eliot Norton
Born: November 16, 1827
Died: October 21, 1908 (aged 80)
Bio: Charles Eliot Norton was a leading American author, social critic, and professor of art. He was a progressive social reformer and a liberal activist whom many of his contemporaries considered the most cultivated man in the United States.
Known for:
- Notes of travel and study in Italy (1859)
- A leaf of grass from Shady hill
- Heart of oak books (1893)