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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
David Daiches
![David Daiches](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: September 2, 1912
Died: July 15, 2005 (aged 92)
Bio: David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.
Known for:
- A Critical History of English Literature (1979)
- Critical approaches to literature (1956)
- Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (1956)
- God and the poets (1984)
- Let's Collect Scotch Whisky (1981)