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
Mary Lamb
Born: December 3, 1764
Died: May 20, 1847 (aged 82)
Bio: Mary Ann Lamb was an English writer. She is best known for the collaboration with her brother Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Lamb suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown.
Known for:
- Tales from Shakespeare (1807)
- More Tales from Shakespeare
- Othello
- Contes de Shakespeare