John Bunyan

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 in the syllabus and...

Lucy spent most of her childhood with her siblings, cared for by a nurse, under-nurse and governess in the third-floor nursery. Their Sunday play consisted of reading the New Testament, Bunyan (Pilgrim's...

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...

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...

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...

She begins arrestingly: We live in a period in which it is not possible to talk meaningfully about God. She then posits an absolute human need for meaning and for myth (the core...

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 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...

The title sounds like an allusion more to Thackeray than to Bunyan .

Here she concludes by quoting, unascribed, eight lines of poetry by Congreve beginning When Lesbia first I saw, so heavenly Fair. Such a worldly quotation seems out of character. Most of the quotations in...

The public unveiling of FutureMouse is a climactic scene that brings together most of the novel's central characters. It begins with a speech by Dr Marc-Pierre Perret, an experimental geneticist, Marcus Chalfen's mentor—whom as a...

Surviving prose by AS includes miscellaneous as well as predominantly religious pieces. The Journey of Life, reminiscent of John Bunyan 's The Pilgrim's Progress or Samuel Johnson 's Vision of Theodore, opens with...

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...

The debt to Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress (often quoted here) is obvious.

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...