“Men are always far more shocked by the vulgarities of women then women are by the vulgarities of men. It is one of the few monopolies which men consider should be theirs after the emancipation of women.”

— Arthur Calder-Marshall

Drummond, William (pseud. Arthur Calder-Marshall). Victim. London: Corgi. 1961.

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English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer 1908–1992

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