For those that think girls are all sugar and spice, offences – leaving school without permission, general disobedience, rudeness, defacing ceiling, throwing stones, striking the headmistress, hiding the coat of a delicate girl, impatience, Truancy, forging a letter from parents. I feel Jenny would agree, the punishments at this school were very lenient to what we would both have expected to receive.
You’re right, I do think they were very lenient. I’m sure we would have got more than four strokes for some of those offences you listed.