John Bunyan

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Standard Name: Bunyan, John

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Cultural formation Agnes Beaumont
AB was received into the Gamlingay congregation of John Bunyan 's Independent Church centred at Bedford.
Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, 1992, pp. 1-33.
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Cultural formation Agnes Beaumont
It was about this time, in winter 1674 (though AB does not say whether it was January-February or December of that year), that she proposed to get to a meeting at Gamlingay by riding pillion...
Cultural formation Elisabeth Wast
EW was not able to rest peacefully in her commitment to the Church ofScotland . Within four months she found herself troubled with Unbelief.
Wast, Elisabeth. Memoirs; or, Spiritual Exercises. 1724.
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Reading Francis Spirahurt me more than all the Books...
Education Catherine Carswell
After her discovery of literature, CC 's early reading included many pious books: Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, and Lives of the Saints. She also read widely in...
Education Flora Thompson
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.
Lindsay, Gillian. Flora Thompson: The Story of the Lark Rise Writer. Hale, 1996.
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Education Clemence Dane
CD later wrote: Of course education in the modern sense didn't exist in the 'nineties, but reading was early acquired.
Dane, Clemence. London Has a Garden. Michael Joseph, 1964.
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Having no television, she was imbibing knowledge from books before she was five. Both...
Education Louisa May Alcott
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...
Education Rebecca Harding Davis
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...
Education George Eliot
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...
Education Elaine Feinstein
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
Feinstein, Elaine. It Goes with the Territory. Alma, 2013.
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in the syllabus and...
Education Lucy Boston
Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery.
Boston, Lucy, Jill Paton Walsh, and Peter Boston. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray, 1992.
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Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...
Education Emmeline Pankhurst
EP 's parents encouraged her intellectual development from an early age. Among the important first texts she read were Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress and John BunyanHoly War, and Carlyle 's French Revolution. Her mother...
Education Anne Brontë
Their later reading drew on a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine of...
Education Charlotte Brontë
Their education continued at home from a selection of standard texts including Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England, Hannah More 's Moral Sketches, John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress, Isaac Watts 's Doctrine...
Education Jean Rhys
At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...

Timeline

1666
John Bunyan published his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.
February 1678
John Bunyan 's famous allegoricalnarrative the Pilgrim's Progress (sometimes later called a novel) was licensed by the Stationers' Company ; it was published this year.
1682
Bunyan published an allegoryof salvation entitled The Holy War, probably written in the first quarter of this year.
1683
John Bunyan published a tract examining the relation of women to the church: A Case of Conscience Resolved.
1684
John Bunyan published his sequelThe SecondPart of the Pilgrim's Progress, in which the protagonist is female.
1686
John Bunyan 's A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children was published.
1881
William Hale White published his successful novel of religious doubt, The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Dissenting Minister, as Mark Rutherford .
1883
James Simson edited a short anthology entitled The Gipsies, as illustrated by John Bunyan , Mrs. Carlyle , and others. And, Do Snakes Swallow Their Young?.
26 April 1951
Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams 's opera Pilgrim's Progress was first performed, at Covent Garden in London.

Texts

Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children. Printed for N. P., 1686.
Bunyan, John. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners. George Larkin, 1666.
Bunyan, John, and Agnes Beaumont. The Trial of John Bunyan and the Persecution of the Puritans: Selections from the Writings of John Bunyan and Agnes Beaumont. Editor Furlong, Monica, Folio Society, 1978.