John Foxe

Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...

Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch 's Lives and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare

After her discovery of literature, CC 's early reading included many pious books: Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, and Lives of the Saints. She also read widely in...

MC writes, No Learning ever was bestow'd on me; / My Life was always spent in Drudgery. But she learned to read very early, and continued learning into adult life. She later listed her...

MBF mentions her early reading (or looking at the pictures in) Foxe 's Book of Martyrs. The strongest influence on her during her teens was Mrs Lefevre , a Methodist, whose letters were posthumously...

She wrote original poetry all her life, though individual pieces are hard to date. Bradner , editor of her poems, counts them as six certain and ten doubtful, besides six verse translations. Some of...