The Convent School; Or, Early Experiences of a Young Flagellant

THIS BOOK IS PORNOGRAPHIC IN NATURE AND CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
BY ROSA BELINDA COOTE.
LONDON: PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1898.
Salomon said, in accents mild,
Spare the rod and spoil the child;
Be they man or be they maid,
Whip and wallop ’em
, Salomon said
The dicta of the Wise Man concerning discipline have been the source of inexpressible dolour to children for very many centuries; and it has only been within the last sixty years that ferocity in the treatment of infants (I am speaking of English children, Jean Jacques Rousseau shamed the French out of the practice of beating
corporal chastisement. If she had committed faults, ‘the punishment was due;’ if she had not, she probably would in the week ensuing. At the distance of more than half-a-century, the memory of this person, who bore a public character of piety and virtue, was spoken of, and justly, with aversion by the person she had thus treated.” Thus Miss Maria Semple.—“G. A. S.,” in the Illustrated London News .
My Dear Nellie,—
the bedside of the dear young creature, as she told the particulars to me, at my visits during her long and painful illness, now, I am afraid, close upon a fatal termination; and you may guess how grieved I am to think that, although I now reserve her name as