John Bunyan

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...

In this text of religious counsel, MBF lists her topics as sub-headings uncharacteristic of an actual letter. She translates her correspondent's approaching journey into spiritual terms: I see you as a ship just launching into...

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.

The book opens, Neilson walked over the bridge. The bridge is a mythical or allegorical structure linking human life on earth to an afterlife: in PF 's own explanatory words it is purgatory.

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...

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...

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

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...

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 .

The night after her father's death, AB was accused by Feery of poisoning him. The accusation was made first to her brother. Mr Halfehead, a surgeon and doctor, viewed the body and said there...

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...

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...

AW 's fondness for alliteration links her back in time to writings in Old English. She is steeped in the familiar rhythms of the Bible: But all my trust is in thy mercie: for...