John Bunyan

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Standard Name: Bunyan, John

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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.
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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...
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.
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Mr Halfehead, a surgeon and doctor, viewed the body and said there...
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.
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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.
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Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...
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.
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Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...
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...
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...

Timeline

1666: John Bunyan published his spiritual autobiography,...

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1666

John Bunyan published his spiritual autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners.

February 1678: John Bunyan's famous allegorical narrative...

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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 allegory of salvation...

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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...

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1683

John Bunyan published a tract examining the relation of women to the church: A Case of Conscience Resolved.

1684: John Bunyan published his sequel The Second...

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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;...

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1686

John Bunyan 's A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhimes for Children was published.

1881: William Hale White published his successful...

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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...

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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...

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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.