The Old Rectory
The Old Rectory is the title of a historic spanking novel by an unknown author. It is one of the longest and most detailed works of boy spanking literature and is notable for two properties:
On one hand, for a work of child spanking literature, "The Old Rectory" is definitely on the extreme side, featuring frequent and hard punishments (even for the time) and cruel and humiliating treatment in general. On the other hand, the novel is written in a delicate and sophisticated language that gives an excellent feeling for the thoughts, mentality and language of adults and boys in strict early 20th century England.
The story
Signboard of The Old Rectory in Richmond, Tasmania.
Edwardian era residential house.
The story consists of 23 chapters and is written in autobiographic style. The time and place of the plot is not specified, but it's not difficult to guess that it is most likely England at the beginning of the 20th century. Despite the old-fashioned discipline methods, even for those days, there is telephone, for example.
The story features only boys and boy spankings (F/B and M/B). While there are many boys, including minor characters, there is no single girl in the entire novel.
The protagonist of the story is Henry Perceval, a 12-and-a-half-year-old boy who, while his parents went for a trip to China, is given for a few months in the charge of the "Old Rectory" Academy ù a small and, as he soon finds out, very strict institution for boys. Other characters include:
- Dame Hilda Catchpole, "the Dame", the institution's female main authority and disciplinarian
- Doctor Arthur Landsdowne, "the Doctor", her male counterpart (a teacher)
- "the Captain", a young teacher in his late twenties
- Perkins, a maid
- a cook
- "the Vicar"
- Eddie Forrest, another boy lodger at the Old Rectory
- Alfred Bowes, a non-lodging boy
- Algernon Briggs, a non-lodging boy, aged 9 and a half
The adults are without exception very strict, although everyone of them has their individual style of disciplining the boys. To a modern observer, they may show symptoms of dippoldism (a disease that shows in sadistic leanings towards minors) in different degrees.
The boys are expected to be on perfect behavior, cleanliness and attire at all times, and are subject to inspections and other methods of supervision. Punishment is given for the smallest infraction of house rules. The range of punishments used is very wide and creative (as often in spanking novels); most of it is corporal punishment in the form of spanking, however with a lot of variation in terms of spanking positions, spanking implements, and so on. Other punishment focuses on humiliation ù for example, letting the boy stand and wait with his hands on his head.
Sources
"The Old Rectory" appeared in the 1990s in Internet newsgroups such as alt.sex.spanking. The digital (plain text) versions which are publicized contain typical OCR spelling mistakes, so unlike contemporary spanking stories, the work seems to have been digitized using scans of some printed source, maybe a book.
See also
- Victorian era
- Edwardian era
- Spanking novel
- early 20th century French spanking literature
- How to run an institution with strict discipline
Links
You can find the individual chapters by doing a Google Groups search for "The Old Rectory". (Adult site)
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