A list of content warnings for The Forthenby Ladies, updated as posted.

The following list is descriptive and out-of-context. It is not intended as an exhaustive guide, however if you feel anything has been missed, please comment and I’ll update it. This series deals with heavy themes, as well as joyful-but-complex situations which are not intended as exemplary. The series has a historical context, and this must be borne in mind.

Chapter One, part one – violence and property damage (mostly comic in tone), bruising, period typucal classism, blood, slapping mention, derogatory language around sex-work, allusion to past interpersonal cruelty, mention of unhappy home life, allusion to sexual assault, nipple pinching, breast binding, biting, fingering, allusion/suggestion of dangerous actions in an erotic D/s situation, masochism, sexual humilation/dehumanisation mention, collaring mention, oral sex (cunnilingus), masturbation, ear pinching.

Chapter One, part two – injury mention (bruising, broken rim), derogatory mention of methodism, blood mention, discussion of gun violence, allusion to parental abuse, knife violence allusion, corporal punishment mention, misuse of power, period-typical attitude to class, allusion to period-typical homophobia, visceral imagery.

Chapter One, part three – period-typical attitude to class, discussion of gun violence, thrashing mention (consensual), period-typical attitude to sex work, slapping (consensual), allusion to past sexual abuse, allusion to past sex work.

Chapter Two, part one – period typical attitude to service and class, mention of heart disease, death mention, callous attitude to death, knife violence mention (vague), period typical attitude to homosexuality, reference to legal consequences of homosexuality.

Chapter Two, part two – Directionless violence, allusion to rape, alcohol mention, poverty and survival sex work mention, period typical attitude to foreigners and Empire, violence mention (disfiguring), throat cutting mention, sex work, gender bending, genital touching, reference to outside sex, ageism, period typical attitude to homosexuality.

Chapter Two, part three – Masturbation, hand job, drunkeness, discussion of sex work, slapping (playful, consensual).

Chater Three, part one – Hunger, poverty mention (real and relative) classism, gun violence (memory and imagined) reference to past sexual abuse (perpetrator), death (memory and imagined), interalised homophobia, corporal punishment in a school setting, abuse in a school setting, blood.

Chapter Three, part two – Blood mention, reference to period typical child homelessness and labour, reference to law enforcement, poverty (relative and real), reference to authoritarian child rearing methods (past), period typical homophobia, classismm, theft, hunger.

Chapter Four, part one – Shallowness and vanity from a sympathetic character, snobbery and classism (period typical), class dynamics (played for comedy), possible elder abuse (mild), period typical treatment of women, predatory female sexuality, sexual objectification, lack of maternal affection, parental favouritism,m theft mention, reference to parental abandonment, alcohol mention, period typical to sexuality and morality.

Chapter Four, part two – Period typical treatment of women, period typical attitude to service, possible elder abuse (mild), alcohol, unconventional morality, parental disappoval, duelling mention, vanity, parental favouritism, sex reference.