In Paris she had her first experience of air-raids and of the damage they caused.

She was often violent during this time, and even in her padded cell was frequently under restraint

She was soon afterwards sold as property, for a trifle, to the husband of Susanna Wheatley .

Her psychoanalysis uncovered apparent memories of sexual violation by her father. Her biographer Carl Rollyson comments that RW 's notes from this time exhibit the delayed, fragmentary reactions common in cases of sexual abuse, but adds that she skirted the issue of what actually happened between herself and her father. She referred to her own case as a latent highly disguised sexual fantasy.

Elaine Hobby reads this as meaning physical abuse or battering.

She commented years later on the sexual aggressiveness of male doctors: she had been indecently assaulted by two and blackmailed into sex by one (apart from willing sex with two more). As long as abortion was illegal, she says, women were made by doctors to pay for it in kind.

At some date during the English Civil War, Cromwell 's army laid waste the parish church of Woodbridge.

QV 's public appearances made her personally loved by many of her subjects, but also vulnerable. She exhibited considerable personal courage in her response to threats and assassination attempts.

HT recalled her as horribly strict and really cruel in many ways. At her aunt's hands, she suffered from beatings, severe cold that caused bleeding chilblains, and semi-starvation. Breakfast often consisted of squares of thinly buttered bread which had to be snatched on the run from a table as she performed her morning exercise of fifty laps around the garden. She was tempted on several occasions to run away to rejoin her parents in India.

Whether or not ST was the object of sexual violence in this household, the persecuting white mistress mentioned in her Narrative, it emerges, was not John Dumont 's first wife, Sally , but her sister Elizabeth , who became his second wife.

Later, during Rosie's final year at schol, Jane was raped by the male partner in a Spanish couple whom she and her husband employed. She would never speak about this event, so her daughter never knew the details.

Distraught, Vita followed the honeymooning couple to the ParisRitz and had a troubled reunion with Violet. Vita later wrote, I took her there, I treated her savagely, I made love to her, I didn't care . . . . I make no excuse, except that I had suffered too much during the past week and was really scarcely responsible.

She had already nursed Nayler in prison after his multiple corporal punishment of flogging, branding, and mutilation of his tongue.

Her marriage to Phelan was a trying period of Elizabeth's life. He physically abused her, and she felt herself in exile with him in Ireland.

Bill Davey is said to have been violent, but there are competing versions of what he did. He either fired guns at his wife, or threw her through a glass window (on allegedly catching her in bed with another woman), or beat up a man who was calling her a whore, or some combination of these actions.

Walter Chapman , the mentally unstable postmaster at Grayshott, murdered his wife Emily , not long after FT ceased working at Grayshott Post Office .

At three AS was snatched at a shop door by a gipsy in a kidnapping attempt.

Even this direct hit on her home, she hated spending the night in air-raid shelters, and hated to be alone in the house. Having persuaded her housekeeper to go to a shelter, she therefore often spent the night with friends.

In unrest following harsh socio-economic conditions in the early nineteenth century, there was rioting at Gateshead by seven thousand miners. According to JS , the Collinson family was so popular that the rioters passed by without doing any damage, though her father, as a magistrate, went out with an escort of dragoons to read the Riot Act, which would make it legal to apply the penalties laid down for riot. A history of Gateshead mentions rioting in 1832, when striking miners were evicted from their cottages to make room for incoming blackleg labour, and when the attitude of the police and bailiffs was enough to cause riots and bloodshed. It is not clear whether these were the riots mentioned by Stretton (who had already married and moved away at this time).

She later testified to her sufferings in the persecuting times after the Restoration: to Loss of Goods, Beating and Hurling to and fro, and being dragged out of the meeting-house.