Do you like girls’ school novels? I don’t mean kinky books written for people who are into spanking and school role-play, but childrens’ books set in a girls school. Enid Blyton, anyone? Chalet School? Angela Brazil?
If I’m honest, I have to admit that these novels are not the best literature ever, but even if they can be corny, and sappy, and sort of start to blend in together after you’ve read a few, I still can’t get enough of them.
Spanking scenes in them are rare – you can find an occassional mention, but I don’t really expect it. Most of the time, the surroundings themselves are hot enough that absence of corporal punishment doesn’t matter.
Also, you can read between the lines, and add any imaginary spanking to taste.
For instance, here’s a quote from “We’re in the Sixth!” by Carol Ann Pearce (The Children’s Press, 1960).
Kate, Netta and Elizabeth discuss their friend Len (Helen) and her guardian (p. 17)
“I wonder what the General is really like,” said Netta.
“We’re never likely to find out, since he doesn’t come to any school functions,” said Elizabeth. “What a pity Len had no other relatives who could have been her guardians when her parents died.”
“I’ve never herd of any other relations,” said Kate. “The General is awfully old.”
“I wish I could meet him,” said Netta. “I’d soon tell him what I think of the way he’s treated Len all these years.”
Don’t think ill of the poor General; all he did was not get too involved with what Len was doing. And he did order her around a fair bit, and threatened not to pay for her further education if she didn’t distinguish herself at school. But that’s all by-the-by. Nothing else happened.
There’s also a very squirmy scene in which our heroines get called into the Headmistress’s office for a well-deserved lecture, but it would need too much context if I were to type it all in.
So, no spanking, but I like the book, anyway. As far as I understand, there are some prequels, but I haven’t been able to get my mitts on them. (The book itself is so far available second-hand on AbeBooks; I’m not aware of a more recent edition.)
School stories, I liked that too – but I loved reading about Soviet pioneers, CP or not… Oh glorious past I never knew… Vitya Maleev At School and At Home – A Russian version of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn… And the one about the lion who left the zoo to wander the streets… Set in Baku I believe – with a very graphic boy CP description… He brought the belt, head down, bad grades, you know!
Actually, I don’t remember many of those books or any having CP scenes involving girls – I think only boys? Maybe Haron remembers it differently… I also remember one scene in one or another of Camus’s memoir type of books about schoolboys in Algeria, where the teacher called his cane “the sugar cane…”
Actually, there is a great Soviet realist (if I remember correctly?) painting depicting a boy with his head down and his family looking on with reproach – entitled Grade 2 One More Time – the Soviet equivalent of “Fail.” I can picture that same painting with a girl in the center…
Yep. Two of my favorites are Margorian’s (sp?) Back Home and Ursula Nordstrom’s The Secret Language. No “good parts” — but certainly enough of a backdrop to fantasize against….especially since Back Home features the “out of place, brassy American girl” away at British school. Sigh.
Hmm, Lauren, I haven’t read any of those; will seek them out. Mmm, American girls in British schools… nice!
Roald Dahl’s (excuse spelling!) autobiography has a lot of CP metions, but all in refural to himself when he was younger, wonder if he was secretly a spanko? heeheehheheh
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t, he seemed genuinely appalled at the thought of cp and how it was used on him and his fellow pupils at prep school and Repton. I, on the other hand, nearly wet myself in the school library on a number of occasions when reading (and rereading, and rereading…) certain scenes in Boy! as a teenager. Sorry, Roald, I know this wasn’t the effect you were aiming for!
I adored school stories when I was little too, particularly Mallory Towers and Trebizon – I sooo wanted to go to boarding school
Ah, Roald Dahl. “Galloping Foxley”. An inspiration!
My first thought when I read this post was about the night you, Haron, and I were at Domino’s house and I got to sleep in the library. Except I couldn’t sleep and read one of her books set in a girls’ school. Seemed like it was from the fifties or so. I can’t remember the author though Enid Blyton sounds familiar. And while you’re so right about the sappiness of it all, as well as a lacuna of corporal punishment, you’re also right about it all being so hot that caning was unnecessary.
I also remembered that about the time when you and Abel were first getting to know each other, I was languishing sick (ha ha, some things never change, no?) in red neck USA and Abel, being the kind (if stern) gentleman that he is, sent me a copy of Philip Larkin’s “Trouble at Willow Gables” (along with a few other more intellectual reads), which is also set in a girls’ school. And since Larkin was such a pervert himself, there were a few spankings here and there. I think there are actually a few novellas in that books and while I finished the first, I still have some more reading left.
At any rate, that’s my long, rambling way of contributing to such a worthy discussion. 😉
I think the charm of the schoolgirl books were that they were English. Somehow, the school uniform thing does it. You can much more easily imagine spanking a girl in uniform compared to one in mufti.
When I was about 14, I had a school friend who was quite athletic and very straight, but he had a little secret that only I knew about. He didn’t like boy comix and superhero and war stuff, but he was mad about schoolgirl comics. You know the one where a couple of girls stumble on a spy ring, and there’s a bad girl in the school, and so on. I can understand it. It appealed to his softer side, and at least these had a story and some sort of point. The boys’ stuff was just one long battle. Anyway, he kept these hidden in a box under his bed, just like porn. All very innocent, and quite touching.
Read a spanking story in Australian Paddles couple of years ago, in which a young Chinese air hostess is given a fatherly spanking by a very old-fashioned pilot. She had been pilfering from the passengers. He tells Quan he is a believer in the “Second Seat of Education”, and I rem she asks what this is, and the story says “though she suspected that it would be of especial interest to her”. Then the story notes that she had read many stories for and about girls which had scenes where the girls’ skirts would be raised, and a spanking administered, and it notes that she had always find this a very stirring and attractive idea. Needless to say, her fantasies were realised that day.
I wondered where all these innocent spanking references in schoolgirl literature existed however. I have never seen an example of it, tho as a child I did come across two descriptions of bare-bottomed spankings in children’s books, and I can tell you, they impressed me considerably. Perhaps the readers and contributers to this thread might rem in what book or comic they read about such things, and post this in, perhaps even quote from it, if they still happen to have it handy.
Enjoying this thread immensely. This tender and innocent side to punishment is, I find a lot more touching than any number of hard core and sexually oriented scenarios.
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