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
Edmund Blunden
Born: November 1, 1896
Died: January 20, 1974 (aged 77)
Bio: Edmund Charles Blunden was an English poet, author and critic. Like his friend Siegfried Sassoon, he wrote of his experiences in World War I in both verse and prose.
Known for:
- Undertones of War (1928)
- A Hong Kong house (1959)
- English Villages (1941)
- Fall in, ghosts
- Shelley: A Life Story (1946)