A Series of Remarkable Instances of Whipping Inflicted on Both Sexes, With Curious Anecdotes of Ladies Fond of Administering Birch Discipline.

Compiled by An Amateur Flagellant, this title was first printed and published in London for private circulation in 1885. It quotes many extracts from The Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, relating to the pros and cons of flogging girls. Other anecdotes include: ‘Revelations of Boarding School Practices’; ‘The Whipping Widow’; ‘Lady Preparing for Birching’; ‘Flogging and Cruelty in a Glasgow Industrial School’; ‘Miss Birched for Thieving’; the notorious case of ‘Elizabeth Brownrigg’, who was executed for her excesses; and ‘Flogging with a Frying Pan’!