Posts Tagged ‘the birch’
The law of the birch
Three pictures supplied by TipTopper on the theme of the birch. The first has the look of a school teacher about to hand out justice. The young women you will notice are halfway to being flappers, with only their hair in a more conservative style. Perhaps it is their short skirts that have run them […]
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Tags: birching, spanking, the birch
Entertainment in redemption
Here are four pictures from TipTopper. All but the bottom right has been seen here before but it was worth another look. All four of the pictures depict what the Victorians and Edwardians would have a called a ‘Great Girl’ getting her comeuppance. That is to say a young woman who might ordinarily be considered […]
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Tags: 1800s, 1900s, adult daughters, birching, corporal punishment, daughters, domestic discipline, Edwardian, edwardian governess, governess, governesses, public humiliation, public spanking, punishment, spanking, spanking adult daughters, the birch, Victorian