"Silas Marner" George Eliot, 1861. Silas Marner defeated in his attempt to discipline Eppie (aged 3) by shutting her in the coal hole. After this episode, she is brought up without punishment. Illustration by Mary L Gow (1851-1929) published 1882.

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