Beaumont, Agnes. “Introduction”. The Narrative of the Persecutions of Agnes Beaumont, edited by Vera J. Camden, Colleagues Press, pp. 1-33.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
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, pp. 1-33. 1, 30 |
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... |
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. 70-1 |
Textual Production | Patricia Beer | At the time of her death PB
was working on a selected edition, for Carcanet Press
, of the poems of John Bunyan
; it never appeared. Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Textual Production | Enid Blyton | EB
published many works of a religious or moral cast: these include The Land of Far-Beyond, 1942 (later editions of which omit the hyphen), which is a modern, juvenile adaptation of Bunyan
's Pilgrim's... |
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 et al. Memories. Colt Books with Diana Boston Hemingford Gray. 22-3, 40 |
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 | Emily Brontë | Thereafter, Patrick Brontë
educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon
's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith
's History of England,... |
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... |
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... |
Textual Production | Frances Hodgson Burnett | FHB
wrote The Two Little Pilgrims' Progress (whose title invokes Bunyan
and perhaps adapters of Bunyan like Mary Martha Sherwood
, Barbara Hofland
, and Charlotte Maria Tucker
), about the visit of orphan twins... |
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. 189 |
Education | Catherine Carswell | |
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... |