Charles Dickens Endorses Wife-Spanking

This review of a BBC show profiles Victorian author Elizabeth Gaskell and includes a brief mention of her professional relationship with Charles Dickens:

Her most crucial ally and collaborator was Charles Dickens, who took the fledgling writer under his wing only to exclaim later to a subeditor: “If I were Mr G, oh heaven how I would beat her.”

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