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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
Jane Ellen Harrison
Born: September 9, 1850
Died: April 15, 1928 (aged 77)
Bio: Jane Ellen Harrison was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology.
Known for:
- Prolegomena to the study of Greek religion (1903)
- Ancient Art and Ritual (1913)
- Introductory studies in Greek art (1885)
- The Religion Of Ancient Greece (1905)