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
Jacob Abbott
Born: November 14, 1803
Died: October 31, 1879 (aged 75)
Bio: Jacob Abbott was an American writer of children's books.
Known for:
- Rollo in Switzerland (1854)
- History of Julius Caesar (1849)
- Rollo on the Atlantic (1853)
- Cleopatra (1879)