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
Richard Harding Davis
Born: April 18, 1864
Died: April 11, 1916 (aged 51)
Bio: Richard Harding Davis was an American journalist and writer of fiction and drama, known foremost as the first American war correspondent to cover the Spanish American War, the Second Boer War, and the First World War.
Known for:
- The Bar Sinister (1903)
- Real Soldiers of Fortune (1906)
- Cuba in War Time (1897)
- Notes of a War Correspondent (1897)
- Cinderella and Other Stories (1896)