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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
Frances Burney
Born: June 13, 1752
Died: January 6, 1840 (aged 87)
Bio: Frances Burney, also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay, was an English novelist, diarist and playwright. She was born in Lynn Regis, now King's Lynn, England, on 13 June 1752, to musical historian Dr.
Known for:
- Evelina (1778)
- Cecilia (1782)
- Journals and letters
- Camilla (1796)
- The Wanderer, or, Female Difficulties (1814)
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