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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
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Born: November 5, 1850
Died: October 30, 1919 (aged 68)
Bio: Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was "Solitude", which contains the lines, "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone".
Known for:
- Poems of Passion (1883)
- Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Maurine and Other Poems (1882)
- Poems of pleasure.. (1888)
- Poems of Power (1901)
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