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The poem was also included in a book by Harte titled Poems, released in January 1871. Several periodicals and books would republish the poem with illustrations. [1] In April 1870, James T. Fields had published a collection of Harte's stories, The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches through the Fields, Osgood, & Co. imprint. [5]
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.
Estanislao del Campo, Collected Works, Spanish-language, Argentina; Adam Lindsay Gordon, Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes, published the day before he died, Australia; Comte de Lautréamont, pen name of Isidore Lucien Ducasse, Poésies, a prose work in two parts, the first on aesthetics and rejecting Romanticism, the second a collection of maxims rewritten to change their original meanings [3 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "1870 poems" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * 1870 in poetry; E.
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]
Mary Borden, Poems of Love and War, edited by Paul O'Prey, was published in London by Dare-Gale Press, [11] distributed by the University of Chicago Press [12] in the US. Her war poems were slowly recognized but now feature in several modern First World War poetry anthologies. [13] Her 1937 novel Action for Slander was adapted into a film the ...