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Judicial corporal punishment in a women's prison, USA (ca. 1890) American colonies judicially punished in a variety of forms, including whipping, stocks, the pillory and the ducking stool. [66] In the 17th and 18th centuries, whipping posts were considered indispensable in American and English towns. [67]
Birching in a women's prison, US (c. 1890) 1839 caricature by George Cruikshank of a school flogging Edmund Bonner punishing a heretic in Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1563) It was the most common school and judicial punishment in Europe up to the mid-19th century, when caning gained increasing popularity.
In the 1870s, courts in the United States overruled the common-law principle that a husband had the right to "physically chastise an errant wife". [21] In the UK, the traditional right of a husband to inflict moderate corporal punishment on his wife in order to keep her "within the bounds of duty" was similarly removed in 1891.
Hughes is best known for a series of four memoirs, A London Child of the 1870s (1934), A London Girl of the 1880s (1936), A London Home in the 1890s (1937), and A London Family Between the Wars (1940). Hughes's stated purpose in these books is "to show that Victorian children did not have such a dull time as is usually supposed".
Flagellation (Latin flagellum, 'whip'), flogging or whipping is the act of beating the human body with special implements such as whips, rods, switches, the cat o' nine tails, the sjambok, the knout, etc. Typically, flogging has been imposed on an unwilling subject as a punishment; however, it can also be submitted to willingly and even done by ...
Argentina: The 1870 Civil Code secure legal majority for unmarried women and widows, though it confirms married women as minors. [85] Finland: Women allowed to study at the universities by dispensation (dispensation demand dropped in 1901). [86] United Kingdom: Married Women's Property Act 1870; India: Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870
She was a master of the art of inflicting pain for pleasure, and practised absolute privacy to protect her clientele. Her clients were said to have been both men and women of wealth, and her career was financially lucrative. [5] Berkley's fame was such that the pornographic novel Exhibition of Female Flagellants was attributed to her, probably ...
In New South Wales, the last corporal punishment occurred at the Maitland Gaol – a whipping, in 1905. [3] Construction on the eastern extension was completed in 1900. Work included perimeter walls, watch towers, women's cell range, workshops and female warders quarters. [2] Maitland became a maximum-security prison in 1972. [2]