Mrs. Theresa Berkley

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“At one famous establishment (existing at present in London, but of which I suppress the name) there come twenty young girls who go through all the phases of schoolmistress, and whip fearfully severely.”

Mrs. Theresa Berkley is a part of our FemDom女性支配 — female domination heritage.

Her instruments of discipline were more numerous than those of any other 19th century Dominatrix女支配者 — a dominant woman. Her supply of birch was extensive, and kept in water, so that it was always green and pliant: she had shafts with a dozen whip thongs丁字裤 — underwear with a thin strip in the back on each of them; a dozen different sizes of cat-o'-nine-tails, some with needle points worked into them; various kinds of thin bending canes; leather straps like coach traces; battle-doors, made of thick sole-leather, with inch nails run through to docket, and currycomb tough hides rendered callous by many years flagellation.

She had holly brushes, furze brushes; a prickly evergreen, called butcher's bush; and during the summer, a glass and China vases, filled with a constant supply of green nettles, with which she often restored the dead to life. Thus, at her shop, whoever went with plenty of money, could be birched, whipped, fustigated, scourged, needle-pricked, half-hung, holly-brushed, furze-brushed, butcher-brushed, stinging-nettled, curry-combed, phlebotomized, and tortured till he could stand no more.