She was a servant, but needed to be well-educated and so was often from a quite high social stratum but fallen on hard times (or maybe she was just number six of six daughters). Then I discovered likely more truth in the matter as the governess's were likely cruel to many children as the article states bad behaviour made the governess look bad, and who wold ever want to look bad just because kids are acting like kids. My face was burning hot with the deep blushes of shame, and I struggled desperately to free my head from the vice-like pressure of Miss Birch's arm, as I begged with piteous sobs to be let off for this once.

The President's wife is addressed as "Mrs President", I believe, so presumably the state Governor's wife is "Mrs Governor", though what happens with female Governors (other than well-deserved spanking) I do not know. In Georgina and the Governess by Neil, disgraced daughter Georgina is taken in hand by the stern no-nonsense Miss Grant. I feel as ashamed at baring her naughty posteriors as if I was going to suffer the degradation and humiliation myself, but come, Lucille dear, you must bear it, and I hope ​you will be a better and more diligent girl in future. His left shoe was scuffed, he saw now, and although he realized, too, that his tie and jacket were awry, he did not dare move to adjust them.It is no surprise that today's lifestyle disciplinarians and dominatrixes often masquerade as a governess who invites her clients into her world of very strict corporal punishment, using their prerogative to remove adult privileges and apply any number of strict measures. By then, they might have been either traumatized by cruel and sadistic instructors, or filled with fondness and admiration for the women who were invariably closer to them than their own mothers, based on the sheer amount of time they had spent together during the child's formative years and beyond. You sir, are no gentleman," she hissed, "to force a lady to strip almost naked, like a common trollop! My take is that many families did not want to be bothered by dealing with children so the governess was given an unusual amount of authority over them.

The best spanking book I ever read was "Petit Maman" written, I think, by Louise Malatesta subtitled the Smacking and published by AKS which introduced a Governess who is originally hired to educate two young boys in a large country house in France.

Awaking in a struggle to retain my ​love-bird, I found myself bedewed by another emission, but at last I slept with tranquility, aud never shall I forget my first taste of joy that day. Apart from my voice, and the impact of whichever implement I am using, once you are inside this room the only sounds you will be aware of are the ticking of the bronze-faced clock, the creak of the old floorboards and the gentle hum of passing traffic, which can be strangely soothing as you wait, bent over, for the next strike. She was very fair in complexion but not thin-skinned, he saw, and the realization that he had made the color come into that previously self-possessed face terrified him.

A lot of spanking/flagellation erotica of the Victorian period imitated the debates over corporal punishment in school and domestic settings, some manifest as tongue-in-cheek parody. First we have Becky Sharpe in William Thackeray's Vanity Fair; and later that same year was published Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. She moistened her lips, and then continued softly, “When your governess gives a command, young sir, it had best be obeyed. Much of the pornography of the period is marked by an obsession with flagellation or the English Vice.The role and position of Governess, affords our imaginations and that of authors, a broad blank canvas upon which to build our 'fantasy' Governess, be she youthful or mature, strict and cruel or firm but fair, is she a Governess by choice or by need? I slipped down on my knees, and hiding my face in my hands in her lap, promised Miss Birch, "if she would forgive me now, to be a better girl in future.