Spanking Reference in a Mainstream Novel ...

The Heinlein I remember is one called Glory Road where when an empress or queen or something threatens him with a sword he tells her he'll pull down her tights and spank her with it until she is begging for mercy and can't sit for a week.
Later then end up in bed and he does get some foreplay spanks.

A friend of mine, Steve Richardson, published years ago a work titled "The Definitive (Provisional) Annotated Bibliography of Spanking Scenes in Novels". This work is sorted by author so you can look up your favorite author. He further defines the pages within the work where spankings occur.

Fortunately, Steve has always provided this free in both Word or pdf (links are at the top of the page):

http://cfpub.com/bibliography.html

Regards,
Tired

PS: This is also available here under author Steve Richardson. However, the pdf or Word doc is much easier to put on your phone or tablet and take to your local library.

Now for those interested in Heinlein, my friend Steve published an analysis of his works and even quotes the page numbers where spankings occur. Again this is available in both Word and pdf and is free:

http://cfpub.com/heinlein.html

Regards,
Tired

I see Richardson has a mention of Robert Nye's novel "Merlin", which has two excellent spanking scenes. Nye was quite obviously "one of us", and his novel "Faust" also has some interesting spanking material (including the sentence "never leave a girl of seventeen half-spanked"). There may also be references to spanking in the third book of the trilogy, "Falstaff", but I can't quite remember.

Nye was a highly respected novelist and poet, and definitely well worth reading.

I don't know if you consider online books mainstream, but Jay Cantrell has written a novel, available on a site called Storiesonline.net, titled Unforgettable Weeks. One of the main characters is Reagan Riley, a high school senior. Her two cousins, Ashlyn (age 17) and Tori (age 15) have been brought by their parents to attend Reagan's graduation. Ashlyn is probably the worst brat you will ever encounter in a serious work of fiction. Tori is somewhat nicer that her sister, and more subtle about her misbehavior. In chapter 104, their mother exclaims, "If California law permitted it, I'd find a birch rod and paddle both of them!" (I don't really consider what is done to a bottom with a birch rod to be paddling, but it is a spanking reference.)

Wheatwine
I'm uncertain that a birch rod would be a go-to implement for a mother in California. As an American, there was a time when I would have assumed a birch rod was a type of paddle made from birch wood.

Does sound confusing, and sounds like the mother knows nothing about spanking implements. A birching( which is a British or European tradition) is more similar to a switching than to a paddling. It would have made more sense if she had said "Whip both of them."
I take it there is no actual spanking in the story, just that reference?

To be fair to the mother in the story, she was born and raised in Denmark, and had always lived in New York and Connecticut since coming to America. Like her daughters, she was only in California to attend Reagan's graduation. She would later admit that she had never actually used corporal punishment on her daughters, but I assume she was concerned about their behavior enough to look up the law in California. Or since she was a lawyer by occupation, she may have just known. At some point, she may have heard of someone getting a paddling, and assumed that this could be used to refer to all corporal punishment. English was not her first language. Or am I way overthinking this, since she is only a fictional character.