At Oundle, Dickinson was picked on and routinely bullied by the older boys of Sidney House, the boarding house that he belonged to, which he described as "like systematic torture" and meant that he became an outsider.
En Oundle, Dickinson foi acosado continuamente polos rapaces maiores de Sidney House, a pensión á que pertencía, algo que el describiu "como unha tortura sistemática" e fixo que se convertese nun paria.