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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
Paul Fussell
Born: March 22, 1924
Died: May 23, 2012 (aged 88)
Bio: Paul Fussell, Jr. was an American cultural and literary historian, author and university professor. His writings cover a variety of topics, from scholarly works on eighteenth-century English literature to commentary on America's class system.
Known for:
- The Great War and Modern Memory (1975)
- Thank God for the Atom Bomb (1988)
- The boy's crusade (2003)
- Wartime (1989)
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