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
Leslie Stephen
Born: November 28, 1832
Died: February 22, 1904 (aged 71)
Bio: Sir Leslie Stephen was an English author, critic, historian, biographer, and mountaineer, best known as the father of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell.
Known for:
- Playground of Europe (1861)
- Hours In A Library (4 Volumes) (1874)
- The English Utilitarians (1900)
- The Science of Ethics (1882)
- Studies of a biographer (1898)