John Bunyan

From the beginning of her time at school, Flora was constantly borrowing books to read on her own, branching out from the Bible and Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to whatever she could lay her hands on.

Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...

She later felt she was lucky to be a postwar student; before then, she would have been as out of place at Newnham as Amy Levy . Christianity was everywhere in the syllabus and...

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...

Her father, Henry Mozley , was a bookseller and publisher. As well as Anne herself, he published Jane Harvey , Charlotte Yonge , and new editions of Hester Chapone 's Letters on the Improvement of...

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...

The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .

She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...

The Bunyan esque title is echoed in occasional chapter titles of the same kind, from The Wicket-Gate to The Summons Comes to Mr. Standfast. The effect is to create an ironic comparison between Bunyan's...

Her heroine Miriam, now twenty-six, looks into her past and future in an attempt to come to terms with herself. The novel is divided into four chapters: on the whole the first is dominated by...

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...

The title suggests it was an allegorical work, not untypical of LMW , with a close relationship to John Bunyan 's The Life and Death of Mr. Badman, 1680.

MP likens her passage through the forests of America to my pilgrimage through the world. In this she may have been mindful of Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, since she has in mind many of...

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...

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...