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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
I. A. Richards
![I. A. Richards](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: February 26, 1893
Died: September 7, 1979 (aged 86)
Bio: Ivor Armstrong Richards, known as I. A. Richards, was an English educator, literary critic, and rhetorician whose work contributed to the foundations of the New Criticism.
Known for:
- Principles of literary criticism (1924)
- The Philosophy of Rhetoric (1936)
- Coleridge on imagination (1934)
- Interpretation in teaching (1938)