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
Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.57, Courier Corporation
