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
John Bayley
![John Bayley](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: March 27, 1925
Died: January 12, 2015 (aged 89)
Bio: John Oliver Bayley was a British literary critic and writer. He was Warton Professor of English at the University of Oxford from 1974 to 1992.
Known for:
- Elegy for Iris (1999)
- Iris and Her Friends (2000)
- Widower's House (2001)
- An Essay on Hardy (1978)