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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
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Born: July 18, 1850
Died: July 19, 1939 (aged 89)
Bio: Rose Hartwick Thorpe, American poet and writer, remembered largely for a single narrative poem, Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight, which gained national popularity.
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