the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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Frederick W. Farrar : [St Winifred's School Stories]

[Harry Burton recalled' "we wallowed in Eric and St Winifred's and other school stories, especially Talbot Baines Reed's"...[Burton] like other working class children preferred Frank Richards to Empire Day, simply because the former was a more reliable guide to the reality he knew'.

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Harry Burton      Print: Book

Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little

'On Wednesdays the bells of St. Michael's Church on the neighbouring hill pealed for a service or, as some said, "choir practice". They filled me with dread, a reminder of Sunday yet to come. In Eric or Little by Little which I had begun to read, the bell was always tolling. Or the World of School it said, and in that school it seemed that the boys died off like flies.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

Frederick W. Farrar : Eric, or, Little by Little

'Religion was a sore trial ... Dean Farrar contributed to my suspicion of God, and my suspicion of God — "I haven't done anything; really I haven't" — gave ghastly reality to Eric's school in which the mortality should have attracted the attention of authority.'

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Wilfred Ruprecht Bion      Print: Book

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