John Bunyan

CD later wrote: Of course education in the modern sense didn't exist in the 'nineties, but reading was early acquired. Having no television, she was imbibing knowledge from books before she was five. Both...

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...

DDM published a small collection of newspaper stories: Come Wind, Come Weather. The first of these had appeared in the Edinburgh Evening News as A Mother and her Faith, comforting words by Daphne du...

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...

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...

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...

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.

MF published a book about one of the important influences on her life: Puritan's Progress, A Study of John Bunyan.

MF edited with an introduction, for the Folio Society , a volume entitled The Trial of John Bunyan and the Persecution of the Puritans: Selections from the Writings of John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont.

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...

Sarah Josepha Buell (later SJH ) was taught at home by her mother, with her father and her brother Horatio (then a law student) joining in for such higher branches of learning as writing, Latin...

At WeymouthEH (while her family moved to the village of Upwey) attended Ma'am Tucker's school, first boarding with a neighbour and later at the school. The governess was a Presbyterian, for which...

She wrote it soon after a visit to Mulranny, where she encountered agrarian violence first hand. She dedicated it to William Edward Forster , Chief Secretary for Ireland. Its full title, The...

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 .