![]() ![]() ![]() But Jane's experience - which was to get even worse - is still remembered by people living today. Workhouses are usually associated with the long-ago squalor of the Victorian underclass. This fantasy became a conviction which filled her with joy at the thought that her daddy would one day come for her. Knowing nothing of her mother, Jane latched on to a workhouse rumour that her father was a high-class gentleman who worked in Parliament or at the Bar. ![]() The mother had been allowed to breast-feed Jane before she was incarcerated in the women's section of the workhouse, never to see her baby again. She had lived in the workhouse since birth, after her mother, a servant girl, had been discovered in bed with her employer. The master took down one of several canes and beat the little girl so severely that she could not sit down for several days.īut if they had expected to break her spirit, they were mistaken. ![]() When Jane owned up to making a sketch of him with a square head, small eyes and an exaggerated stomach, she was taken to the discipline room, a small cell with no windows and no furniture except for a stool. ![]()
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