John Bunyan

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Standard Name: Bunyan, John

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Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Melvill
Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.
qtd. in
Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol.
68
, No. 1, May 2017, pp. 38-77.
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John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...
Intertextuality and Influence Eliza Meteyard
This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life),
qtd. in
Lee, Amice. Laurels & Rosemary: The Life of William and Mary Howitt. Oxford University Press, 1955.
188
including the profession of the army surgeon father of the eponymous character...
Intertextuality and Influence Emma Robinson
The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .
Intertextuality and Influence Monica Furlong
She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God.
Furlong, Monica. The End of Our Exploring. Hodder and Stoughton, 1973.
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She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...
Intertextuality and Influence John Buchan
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Dorothy Richardson
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Elizabeth Bury
Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair.
Bury, Elizabeth. An Account of the Life and Death of Mrs Elizabeth Bury. Editor Bury, Samuel, Printed by and for J. Penn and sold by J. Sprint, 1720.
189
Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...
Intertextuality and Influence Lady Mary Walker
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.
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Peisley
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Corp
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...
Leisure and Society Mary Jones
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 .
Jones, Mary. Miscellanies in Prose and Verse. Dodsley, 1750.
317, 301, 319
Other Life Event Agnes Beaumont
The night after her father's death, AB was accused by Feery of poisoning him. The accusation was made first to her brother.
Beaumont, Agnes. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont. Editor Camden, Vera J., Colleagues Press, 1992.
70-1
Mr Halfehead, a surgeon and doctor, viewed the body and said there...
politics Charlotte Grace O'Brien
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...
Textual Features Elizabeth Justice
EJ 's account of her early life takes little pains to shape herself as a heroine, though she is bright (teachable),
Justice, Elizabeth. Amelia; or, The Distress’d Wife. 1751.
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feeling (devoted to her older half-sister), and unfairly passed over by...
Textual Features Anne Wheathill
AW 's fondness for alliteration links her back in time to writings in Old English. She is steeped in the familiar rhythms of the Bible: But all my trust is in thy mercie: for...

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