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Record Number: 29882


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'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

Date:

Between 8 Sep 1905 and 31 Dec 1913

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


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



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


Source Information:

Record ID:

29882

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:

43

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

Wilfred R. Bion, Francesca Bion (ed.), The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life (Abingdon, 1982), p. 43, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/RED/record_details.php?id=29882, accessed: 28 April 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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