Library Illustrative of Social Progress From the Original Editions
                                                            
                                    
                                            Henry Thomas Buckle 
                                    
                                
                            9781465533586
                                428 pages
                            Library of Alexandria
                            
                            
                                
                         
                        
                                
Overview
                                of "A History of Civilization in England." No. 1. Exhibition of Female Flagellants in the Modest and Incontinent World. Proving from Indubitable FACTS, That a Number of Ladies take a Secret Pleasure, In WHIPPING their own, And CHILDREN committed to their care ; and that their PASSION for EXERCISING and FEELING the PLEASURE of a BIRCH-ROD, from objects of their CHOICE