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Disgusting!

There is nothing wrong with this story, as to the parts that Ive read.

It might be a bit exaggerated for its time.

But by that time they had been made Docile Long Before the Age of 15 not to snaop the cane on their knees and throw it out the window like
Nora-Andrienne

There is nothing wrong with this story, as to the parts that Ive read.

It might be a bit exaggerated for its time.

But by that time they had been made Docile Long Before the Age of 15 not to snaop the cane on their knees and throw it out the window like
Nora-Andrienne

Contrary to other writers, I do not find this story amusing at all.  Cat of nine tails and child abuse is not worth reading.  The author should be ashamed and remove this from the site.  Furthermore, a more compassionate story could be written and I have already read 100's on this site.  Anyone who approves of this story is just as mixed up as the author.

Contrary to other comments, I think this shows a cruel mindset of the author.  Cat of nine tails, and abuse is not humorous.  I am totally disgusted with it and refused to finish it.  This is pure trash and nothing anyone can write to the contrary will deter my opion.  The author should be totally ashamed and remove this from the sight.  Surely, a story with more compassion could be written.  Those who approve of this is just as mixed up as the author.  No value whatsoever in it.

What a fantastic story.  I would loved to have been Molly, as I have been a TV schoolgirl for several years and get CP quite regularly.  I would liked to have worn suspenders and thick stockings and also to have had a gym kit to do my punishment PE in.  Oh how I wish I could be Molly!

hi a great story well witten &explained thank god i was not around inthe victorian days what a way to go well done again

Hi Shinigami

Thank you for your comment, which I would have answered direct, if you had left your address.  I hope you come back to this page and see my answer/explanation.

I understand what you mean about ‘hating’ me, because my favourite author keeps writing new story lines, whilst I would prefer her to write the promised sequels to two earlier stories.  So I know exactly the feeling you have.  At the same time, your comment is, in a rather bizarre way, one of the nicest I have received!

Unfortunately (for you), ‘Schoolgirl’ was originally intended as a stand-alone short story and not as the introduction to a longer one.  It ended suddenly with Harry’s shock of finding out that he is not to be rescued after all, but that he is marooned in that horrible girls’ school for three years and not months, just as Robinson Crusoe is marooned on the desert island.

We are left with Harry’s despair and with us wondering what his father’s attitude will be, when he finds out how his sisters have treated his only son.  Will it be anger, indifference, or approval?

(Incidentally, if the school is as academically as good as his father thinks it is, he will probably breeze his way into Oxford or Cambridge in those days and will do very well, providing he can somehow cover up where he went to school before university.  Eton, or Harrow, it was not!))

The idea of him possibly becoming a gallant WW1 officer was later introduced when I was accused by two readers of creating a wimp.  They had transferred late-20th Century conditions and attitudes back a hundred years, when they did not exist.

In Victorian/Edwardian times, children were to be seen and not heard, except for their crying after being punished!  Children then had no RIGHTS at all.  They were completely at the mercy of adults, legally, financially, and particularly physically.  

My story is complete fiction, but it is a fact that my ancestor was caned at school in the years just before WW1 for asking what he thought was a perfectly reasonable question.  “How can Mid-Summer’s Day come only three days after the official beginning of Summer?”  When he persisted in trying for a reasonable answer, he was ordered to the front of the class and made to hold his hand out as a target for the teacher’s cane, ‘for impertinence’!

Yes, you could be caned for something as trivial and sincere as that and the cane or the strap was a piece of everyday equipment in every classroom.

Girls were punished in the same way, but he was lucky, because boys in expensive private schools were often made to drop their trousers and caned on their bare buttocks –often by more senior boys, as well as by teachers.

As I remarked in an earlier comment, corporal punishment lasted much later into the 20th Century than most people realise.

Harry was simply a victim of the system of the time!  AND, as I said before, it is FICTION!

This is a very well written introduction to a story, which makes it all the more annoying that there doesn't seem to be more to it. If he does become an officer in WWI then I'd like to know how he makes that transition, and/or if there are any lasting effects.

You do a very good job describing things that a modern person is not necessarily familiar with and I really care about what happens to the main character. If this is all you're going to write than please understand that when I say "I hate you" I mean it in the nicest way possible:-)

Thank you for your comment Spencer.  I'm glad you liked my story, but as for making him, or any other boy, a girl,I'm afraid I just do not write that kind of story - sorry.

I suggest you have a look at stories by Jennifer.

you should do more like that one but make them become a girl. i still think i was great.

Very very nice story.
I am fascined by this situation. A young man obliged to
live alone with girls and obliged to wear the same uniform.
Fantastic

 I hope you write where he gets his revenge on all those
bitches in that school. For once I'd Like to read a good
revenge story on this site!

I should like to make several observations to Nora-Adrienne and Jezzie Belle.  By the way, thank you for your comments, Ladies.

1.  Social customs, and things generally, were very, very different 110 years ago.  Children had to be 'seen and not heard' and had absolutely no 'rights' - at all.  Teenagers (a word not coined until more than half a century later) were treated and regarded as little children (especially girls) and not as 'students', or as young adults.

Harry was not a wimp.  He was only fourteen, for God's sake, and he was virtally in the position of being a penniless orphan.  In Victorian times!  He knuckled under because he had absolutely no other option.

He probably grew up into a gallant officer in the WW1 trenches.

Agreed not all Victorian schoolmistresses were 'sadistic bitches', but the ones in my story were. Surprisingly, lots of real schoolmistresses, governesses and nannies of the period were also.  Read the literature.  They also loved to inflict embarrassing and humiliating punishments on children.

I remember reading about one ex-Victorian child, whose governess seemed to think up another humiliating costume and then go out of her way to look for an excuse/ocasion to use it.

The actions that Nora-Adrienne says she took would no doubt be applauded in these modern times, but would have probably brought a spell in a severe UK Reform School up, at least, into the 1950/60s.

At the time of my story, a mature rich women lost all her property to her husband on marriage, and was immediately a penniless pauper in her own right, and could also be thrashed by him, "so long as he used a stick no thicker than a man's thumb".  (Legal precedent set by a Judge.)

Also, Corporal Punishment was still legal in UK schools until 1998 - only four years ago!

2.  Not all orphanages were like the one in Dicken's 'Oliver Twist' and not all the girls' schools like the one Jane Eyre was sent to, but enough like them existed in fact for those two eminent contemporary authors to depict them so in their novels.

3.  Finally, Please remember that all three stories, 'Oliver', 'Jane' and 'Schoolgirl' are F I C T I O N!

Very nice period story.  I would hope a part two would include Molly's learning experiences with tight corsets of the period.  Keep up the great work.

  I agree with nora-Adrienne.  My problem was that this could have been a good, enjoyable story about feminizing a boy in Victorian times, but The constant cruelty, etc. was too much.  Even in Victorian times not ALL the so-called teachers were sadistic bitches. I will say that it was hard for me to have any sympathy for the victim as he was written so wimpy and submissive, the his tormentors were so universally cruel and sadistic that I did.  This story died of overkill.  

Nice story. I always like suchs stories set back in that era. ONly just hope if you would make a part 2 or another (which I hope). Maybe some more plot changes.. As their already are some stories with boardings schools.. it is a bit of the same.
Keep up this great writing.. I love it as long as it is victorian .
Tony

Sorry Rob,
I got about 30 lines into the story and quit.  At 15 I had already told those kind of disciplinaraians what I thought of them.  At 9 I had taken the teachers stick and broken it across my knee and thrown the pieces out the window.  Even as a G rated story it grates on my past and makes me angry.  I can't believe students back then didnt rebel physically against such treatment.

Have to say that I enjoyed this little tale though taking place in the 1800s, I wasn't sure I would. Stories in that time period normally don't interest me but this one was well written and stayed focus.