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
Edgar Saltus
Born: October 8, 1855
Died: July 31, 1921 (aged 65)
Bio: Edgar Evertson Saltus was an American writer known for his highly refined prose style. His works paralleled those by European decadent authors such as Joris-Karl Huysmans and Oscar Wilde.
Known for:
- The philosophy of disenchantment (1885)
- Anatomy of Negation (1886)
- HISTORIA AMORIS (1906)
- The Paliser Case (1919)
- Lords of the Ghostland (1907)