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
Mark Girouard
![Mark Girouard](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: October 7, 1931
Died: August 16, 2022 (aged 90)
Bio: Mark Girouard was a British architectural writer, an authority on the country house, an architectural historian, and biographer of James Stirling.
Known for:
- Life in the English Country House (1978)
- The Victorian Country House (1971)
- The Return to Camelot (1981)
- Cities and People (1985)
- The English Town (1990)