Record Number: 29880

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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

Date:

Between 8 Sep 1905 and 31 Dec 1906

Country:

England

Time

n/a

Place:

city: Bishop's Stortford
county: Hertfordshire

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Wilfred Ruprecht Bion

Age:

Child (0-17)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

8 Sep 1897

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Psychoanalyst

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

India (of Anglo-French ancestry)

Country of Experience:

England

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Frederick W. Farrar

Title:

Eric, or, Little by Little

Genre:

Children's Lit

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

29880

Source:

Print

Author:

Wilfred R. Bion

Editor:

Francesca Bion

Title:

The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life

Place of Publication:

Abingdon

Date of Publication:

1982

Vol:

n/a

Page:

36

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Wilfred R. Bion, Francesca Bion (ed.), The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life, (Abingdon, 1982), p. 36, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=29880, accessed: 18 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None