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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
H. Rider Haggard
Born: June 22, 1856
Died: May 14, 1925 (aged 68)
Bio: Sir Henry Rider Haggard known as H. Rider Haggard was an English writer of adventure novels set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the Lost World literary genre.
Known for:
- King Solomon's Mines (1885)
- Ayesha (1905)
- She and Allan (1921)
- The People of the Mist (1894)
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