View attachment 444301 Oh Charles! I just knew we did the right thing when we reported that wretched girl for stealing a handkerchief at that vendor's stall. And to think the constable invited us in to watch her take her punishment, too! I can't wait to tell all the ladies at tea tomorrow ... such a delicious little story ... owwww .... she's really getting it now ... Charles, please take me home ... I am feeling .... well, Charles ... watching those lashes break over her bare straining back makes me feel so .......
Below : the beginning (1st picture) : the guilty maid begs her rich and cruel mistress to spare her the whip (she accidentally broke some object)
My scenario is different : they make her whip by a professional (but this picture is a fake, cf above)
These professionals existed at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century
Young girls were professionaly caned by a some Mrs. Smith, a pastor's wife, for 1 guinea (21 shillings), in the presence of their parents or not.
She tied them on a caning/whipping board, butt and legs nude (or entirely nude, I don't know). She sold canes too.
Cf "Happy Valley", which takes place in a British colony in Africa (Kenya ?) in the 30ths
Cf too "Amanda's Punishment"
There was professionals of that kind in colonial context, men who whipped females slaves, cf "uncle Tom's cabin", in Caribeans/West Indies and South of US, and maybe in Brazil, etc.