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.

She was also a great self-educator and took to reading everything from Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress to Hawthorne 's The Scarlet Letter (he was a family friend). She particularly admired Mary Wollstonecraft and also warmed...

Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories...

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...

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...

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.

In this text of religious counsel, MBF lists her topics as sub-headings uncharacteristic of an actual letter. She translates her correspondent's approaching journey into spiritual terms: I see you as a ship just launching into...

The book opens, Neilson walked over the bridge. The bridge is a mythical or allegorical structure linking human life on earth to an afterlife: in PF 's own explanatory words it is purgatory.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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...