Re: NGJ New Addition to To Train Up a Child
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Originally Posted by Tasmanian Saint
much longer than that, in various forms...as just one example, "Marmee" in Little Women says, "I don't believe in corporal punishment, especially for girls," and pulls her daughter out of school over it. That book's over a hundred years old...
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You're right, I had forgotten about that. I think there was also some condemning of it by Dickens in David Copperfield and possibly Oliver Twist, it was just not as overt. It has been a while since I read those books, so I will have to reread them to be sure.
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