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Record 29881

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
'For hour after hour we did "Search the Scriptures". These were booklets in which texts from a book in the Bible were printed with blank spaces; we were to fill in the chapter and the verse where they could be found. I could not find them; other boys could.'
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, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: Search the Scriptures
Genre: Other religious, Ephemera, Miscellany / Anthology
Form of Text: Print: Pamphlet
Publication details: n/a
Provenance: read in situ

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 29881  
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: 37
  Additional comments: n/a

Citation: Wilfred R. Bion, Francesca Bion (ed.), The Long Week-End 1897-1919: Part of a Life (Abingdon, 1982), p. 37, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=29881, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

 

 

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