ABSTRACT
On the whipping of young ladies a perfect mine of information is to be found in that most popular of all periodicals, the Family Herald. As everybody knows, this journal is famed for its notices to correspondents, and among these we find a large number relating to discipline in ladies’ schools, and also at home. Correspondence on this delicate subject has been going on in the Herald at various times during the last eighteen years. These controversies begin in the simplest possible way. A mother, for instance, who has an unmanageable daughter, writes to know if any correspondent can inform her of a training school of severe discipline for girls in any of the suburbs of London; or Emily desires to find a school at which to place the daughter of a friend, a spoiled child, where the discipline is very strict, and flogging is permitted. And Emily goes on to mention that she herself attended the school of the Misses Fulcher at Chiswick (now abroad), where the discipline was severe, and birching the invariable punishment for certain offences.
