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
Robert Hugh Benson
Born: November 18, 1871
Died: October 19, 1914 (aged 42)
Bio: Robert Hugh Benson was an English Anglican priest who in 1903 was received into the Roman Catholic Church in which he was ordained priest in 1904. He wrote the notable novel Lord of the World.
Known for:
- Lord of the World (1907)
- Come Rack! Come Rope! (1912)
- The Dawn of All (1911)
- The Necromancers (1907)
- Confessions of a convert (1913)