The Tutor’s Friend
A bumper post from Blushes 3, featuring Tracy Wilkes. This series of eight nicely illustrated vignettes, purporting to be extracts from a guide to potential tutors of girls, was scattered throughout the magazine. The other stories and features in Blushes 3 ( Illustrator's Corner , A Room with Yellow Curtains , April , Katie , Sally-Anne , and Lolly ) were generally similarly themed around tutoring. The third part (Booked) has already appeared on this blog as a standalone piece. Extracts from the Tutors’ Friend on the management of girls of a ‘certain age’, with cautionary notes where applicable. 1. Bathtime MODESTY: Along with ‘innocence’ and ‘virginity’, modesty is apt to be regarded as a virtue by girls’ mothers. and consequently also by the girls themselves if they haven’t quite grown up enough to have grasped the realities of life. REMEDY: A key removed from a bathroom door is a good start, as is the confiscation...