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
Stephen Spender
Born: February 28, 1909
Died: July 16, 1995 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir Stephen Harold Spender was an English poet, novelist and essayist who concentrated on themes of social injustice and the class struggle in his work.
Known for:
- World within world (1951)
- The Temple (1988)
- New Selected Journals, 1939-1995
- The struggle of the modern (1963)
- Trial of a judge (1938)
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