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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
Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Born: December 29, 1814
Died: 1880 (aged 65)
Bio: Edwin Hubbell Chapin was an American preacher and editor of the Christian Leader. He was also a poet, responsible for the poem Burial at Sea, which was the origin of a famous folk song, Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie.
Known for:
- The crown of thorns (1847)
- Humanity in the city (1854)
- Duties of young men
- Discourses on the Lord's Prayer (1850)
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