John Bunyan

CGOB 's existing involvement in Irish politics became stronger and more focussed in 1880, a year of steeply increased emigration from Ireland. She was a supporter of Parnell , with an interest in Nationalist politics...

The night after her father's death, AB was accused by Feery of poisoning him. The accusation was made first to her brother. Mr Halfehead, a surgeon and doctor, viewed the body and said there...

MJ mentions her reading (or running over) as reaching from Milton 's Paradise Lost to popular ballads, even taking in Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, but her favourite was Pope .

The public unveiling of FutureMouse is a climactic scene that brings together most of the novel's central characters. It begins with a speech by Dr Marc-Pierre Perret, an experimental geneticist, Marcus Chalfen's mentor—whom as a...

Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...

Surviving prose by AS includes miscellaneous as well as predominantly religious pieces. The Journey of Life, reminiscent of John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress or Samuel Johnson 's Vision of Theodore, opens with...

The debt to Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress (often quoted here) is obvious.

The introduction presents an old gentleman whose impatience with religious novels is being patiently reasoned away by his grandson with a reminder that the category includes Bunyan . An elderly bachelor, a reviewer, a boarding-school...

ML here accords honorific citation to Dryden and Pope , repeated mockery to the over-long words she sees as favoured by Dr Johnson , and contempt to the famous John Bunyan of...

Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes.

Here a mother tells her children the story of a knight, Fides or Faithful, who slays various giants (Sloth, Pride, Untruth, etc.). The story-within-a-story was one of CMT 's favourite techniques. This is a...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

An anonymous publisher in Stickney, South Dakota, put out an undated modern reprint.Bunyan , along with the Bible, was one of CMT 's primary literary influences. Whether or not she knew it, she...

Child readers of Jackanapes sometimes remember better the portrait of a wild little boy, bold and generous but naughty in many ingenious ways, than the account of his heroic, self-sacrificing death in battle, with quotations...

This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life), including the profession of the army surgeon father of the eponymous character...