Happy Tears: An American Classic of Female Discipline

First published in America in the 1930s, Happy Tears tells the story of a mother who brings up her grown-up daughter with the strap and the whip.In doing so, she is following a tradition handed down from mother to daughter for generations. Seeing the story through the eyes of Arthur Lacy, who hopes to marry the mother and bring his own wayward grown-up daughter under her control, we encounter other households where similar discipline is meted out to both daughters and maidservants.

Admired for years by a small circle of discerning collectors, this classic work of female discipline has been out of print for over half a century.

Happy Tears is an honest, warm-hearted book that deals with the subject of discipline in a manner which is refreshingly decent and morally sound.