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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
Thomas Hood
Born: May 23, 1799
Died: May 3, 1845 (aged 45)
Bio: Thomas Hood was an English poet, author and humourist, best known for poems such as "The Bridge of Sighs" and "The Song of the Shirt". Hood wrote regularly for The London Magazine, the Athenaeum, and Punch.
Known for:
- The poetical works of Thomas Hood
- The works of Thomas Hood (1840)
- The comic annual, (1830)
- Whims and oddities (1826)
- Faithless Nelly Gray: A Pathetic Ballad
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