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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
George Henry Lewes
Born: April 18, 1817
Died: November 30, 1878 (aged 61)
Bio: George Henry Lewes was an English philosopher and critic of literature and theatre. He became part of the mid-Victorian ferment of ideas which encouraged discussion of Darwinism, positivism, and religious scepticism.
Known for:
- Problems of life and mind (1873)
- The physiology of common life (1859)
- The principles of success in literature
- The Life of Goethe
- Ranthorpe (1847)
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