In this next selection of letters to the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, we encounter more correspondence from both the chastisers and the chastised.
The first memory comes from Florence, who writes: “Both my brother and myself were spoiled in the fullest sense of the word. My father spoiled me, and my mother spoiled my brother. However, when I was 14 years of age my parents were compelled to go abroad for mamma’s health and I was left under the guardianship of a maiden aunt, who quickly decided that a strict school was the best place for me.