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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 Southey
Born: August 12, 1774
Died: March 21, 1843 (aged 68)
Bio: Robert Southey was an English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called "Lake Poets", and Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 to his death in 1843.
Known for:
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears (1837)
- Thalaba the Destroyer (1799)
- The life of Nelson (1813)
- Joan of Arc (poem)
- Madoc
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