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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
James Thomson
Born: November 23, 1834
Died: June 3, 1882 (aged 47)
Bio: James Thomson, who wrote under the pseudonym Bysshe Vanolis, was a Scottish Victorian-era poet famous primarily for the long poem The City of Dreadful Night, an expression of bleak pessimism in a dehumanized, uncaring urban environment.
Known for:
- The City of Dreadful Night
- The city of dreadful night, and other poems
- Satires and profanities
- Biographical and critical studies