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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
Robert Burton
Born: February 8, 1577
Died: January 25, 1640 (aged 62)
Bio: Robert Burton was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire.
Known for:
- The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)
- The Essential Anatomy of Melancholy
- Some Anatomies of Melancholy
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