John Bunyan

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...

The child Ethel Richardson was a great reader. She identified with male fictional characters, and cherished three books which her father gave her almost on his death-bed: The Pilgrim's Progress by Bunyan , Robinson Crusoe...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Her father, Henry Mozley , was a bookseller and publisher. As well as Anne herself, he published Jane Harvey , Charlotte Yonge , and new editions of Hester Chapone 's Letters on the Improvement of...

This illustrated story of a young girl's childhood and education has some autobiographical elements (Howitt calls it her own early life), including the profession of the army surgeon father of the eponymous character...

Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition.John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...

Her one-paragraph preface says these pieces were written long since,in the days of crinoline,croquet, and the violent purples of the then new aniline dyes.

ML here accords honorific citation to Dryden and Pope , repeated mockery to the over-long words she sees as favoured by Dr Johnson , and contempt to the famous John Bunyan of...

EJ 's account of her early life takes little pains to shape herself as a heroine, though she is bright (teachable), feeling (devoted to her older half-sister), and unfairly passed over by...

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 .

MJ 's letters cover the period from 1732 to 1748, from the writer's mid twenties till she was just over forty. Like her poems themselves they are full of the business of poetry and authorship...

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...