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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
Hester Thrale
Born: January 27, 1741
Died: May 2, 1821 (aged 80)
Bio: Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.
Known for:
- Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786)
- The Piozzi letters (1792)