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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
Hugh MacDiarmid
![Hugh MacDiarmid](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: August 11, 1892
Died: September 9, 1978 (aged 86)
Bio: Christopher Murray Grieve, known by his pen name Hugh MacDiarmid, was a Scottish poet, journalist, essayist and political figure.
Known for:
- A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926)
- Complete poems
- Selected poetry
- Scottish eccentrics (1936)
- Contemporary Scottish studies (1926)