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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
William Lyon Phelps
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Born: January 2, 1865
Died: August 21, 1943 (aged 78)
Bio: William Lyon Phelps was an American author, critic and scholar. He taught the first American university course on the modern novel. He was a well-known speaker who drew large crowds.
Known for:
- Essays on Russian novelists (1911)
- Essays on Books (1914)
- Autobiography: With Letters (1939)
- The advance of the English novel (1916)