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
Susanna Moodie
Born: December 6, 1803
Died: April 8, 1885 (aged 81)
Bio: Susanna Moodie was an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time.
Known for:
- Roughing it in the Bush (1852)
- Life in the clearings (1853)
- Life in the Backwoods
- Flora Lyndsay (1854)
- George Leatrim