The Reckoning
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- Synopsis
- Wasn't it the French humorist, Pierre Daninos, who said: "In the depths of every Englishman's subconscious there is a cat-o'-nine-tails and a schoolgirl in black stockings"? This anthology of contemporary short stories celebrates the extraordinary mythology that has grown up around corporal punishment and young English ladies in their late teens and early twenties. I-author of these stories and professional English schoolmistress-first became painfully aware of corporal punishment when I was a young schoolgirl. At the all-girls high school which I attended in Sussex, not only did we receive the slipper on our bottoms for quite trivial misdemeanours such as lateness, but for more serious offences we could expect anything up to six strokes from the headmistress' three-foot-long rattan cane. That this was a fairly typical situation in England, twenty or so years ago, may be illustrated by the following extract from the provincial English newspaper The Cornishman of 9 July 1964.
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 200 Pages
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 02/15/08
- Copyrighted By:
- Blue Moon Books Inc.
- Adult content:
- Yes
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender
- Submitted By:
- robert tweedy
- Proofread By:
- robert tweedy
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.