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 .

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...

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...

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...

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...