Orwell does not have too many nice things to say about the school, and he makes a meal of the harsh punishments there.
He may have been embellishing for the sake of dramatic and political effect, as his biographer notes, that an eminent St Cyprian old boy, has annotated the margins of Orwell’s work with fierce denials and disagreements.
Even this eminent gentleman, however, does not deny that boys were beaten for bed-wetting.
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I was also slippered on my own on four occasions and didn’t feel embarrassed in private about letting the...
This worried me half to death I had lied to a teacher and now the whole class had just...
On each occasion I had to report to the punishment room in the evening, dressed only in underpants, bedroom...
As a keen cricket fan I have been reading a book called ” Nottinghamshire Cricket and Cricketers ” published...
1977 – Mr Bruce Added by David Ross I vividly remember Mr Bruce interrupting Mr Hart’s class(11) to call...
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