TheEnglishMaster:
Have you read 'Jude the Obscure' lately? Early in the novel Jude gets spanked by a farmer in a cornfield for feeding the birds he's supposed to be scaring off.
There are many Hardy heroines that could need a spanking (my votes would probably go to Bathsheba Everdene and Eustacia Vye), but I think the only book that comes close is (if I remember correctly) "Desperate Remedies" where the heroine, Cytherea Graye, is whipped in a dream(!) with bones attached to strings.