Evidence: | 'I endeavoured to counteract this depression by reading the Bible, the only book I had besides a Prayer Book and a Protestant manual called the "Narrow Way", and by forcing myself to concentrate on the structure of sentences as well as to try to comprehend the meaning of what I was reading. Since that time I have twice read the Bible from cover to cover in similar circumstances and for similar reasons. I was then too young and too fundamentally ignorant to understand and appreciate the Bible for what it is - that came later - but even then I was concious of its tremendous interest as a record of the strivings and sufferings of men in their efforts to pierce the veil and solve the ultimate mysteries of life and death... My early Bible reading under duress has not perhaps influenced my life for good in the objective sense of the word,... I know that the main reason I had for devoting so much time to such reading was with the idea of overcoming my moods of brooding and depression, and later to supress the vile thoughts and obscene imaginings which assailed me with evergrowing intensity in the silence and maddening loneliness of my cell.' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | unknown | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Winchester specific address: Wincester Gaol other location: in his cell |
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Reader: | Stuart Wood [pseud?] |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | 27 Feb 1885 |
Socio-economic group: | Labourer (non-agricultural) |
Occupation: | son of master craftsman, but habitual criminal |
Religion: | family Methodist but becomes athiest |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [n/a] |
Title: | Bible |
Genre: | Bible |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | borrowed (institution library) |
Record ID: | 12649 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Stuart Wood | |
Editor: | n/a | |
Title: | Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1932 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 60 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Stuart Wood, Shades of the prison house: A personal memoir (London, 1932), p. 60, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=12649, accessed: 25 April 2024 |
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