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
Susan Fenimore Cooper
Born: April 17, 1813
Died: December 31, 1894 (aged 81)
Bio: Susan Augusta Fenimore Cooper was an American writer and amateur naturalist. She founded an orphanage in Cooperstown, New York and made it a successful charity.
Known for:
- Rural hours (1850)
- Elinor Wyllys
- The Lumley Autograph
- Female Suffrage
- The rhyme & reason of country life