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
Samuel Richardson
Born: August 19, 1689
Died: July 4, 1761 (aged 71)
Bio: Samuel Richardson was an 18th-century English writer and printer. He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady and The History of Sir Charles Grandison.
Known for:
- Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded (1740)
- Clarissa - (1748)
- The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753)
- The novels of Samuel Richardson