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
Gertrude Bell
Born: July 14, 1868
Died: July 12, 1926 (aged 57)
Bio: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was an English writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist.
Known for:
- The Desert and the Sown (1907)
- Tales from the Queen of the Desert
- Letters of Gertrude Bell
- Amurath to Amurath (1911)