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Author: Bunyan
Title of text being read: Pilgrim

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1800-1849"And how fared the growth of this child's mind the while? Thanks to the care of his mother, who had sent him to the penny school, he had learnt to read, and the desire to...Gerald Massey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899"Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle Tom's Cabin fused with talk of bazaars, relief funds...Emmeline Pankhurst John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799
1800-1849		'"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostate in the iron cage, and drew my own conclusions".'William Brown John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress and Sexton Blake", recalled upholsterer's son Herbe...Herbert Hodge John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'"I next succeeded in discovering for myself a child's book, of not less interest than even The Iliad." It was Pilgrim's Progress, with wonderful woodcut illustrations. A...Hugh Miller John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'"It is an hard matter," wrote John Bunyan in "The Pilgrim's Progress", "to go down into the Valley of Humiliation."'Vera Brittain John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book, Unknown
1700-1799'After that Kitty made a proposition very pleasant to me, that we should sit together all the afternoon and read "Pilgrim's Progress" and work; and we sat snugly over the...Elizabeth Gurney John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the Celestial City; mused over his hair-breadth escapes,...William Heaton John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'At age ten Harry West, the son of a circus escape artist, read Pilgrim's Progress merely as "A great heroic adventure". Only later did he appreciate it as a religious al...Harry West John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'At the close of the nineteenth century, on a farm in Derbyshire Peak District, Robinson Crusoe was read aloud every winter and never palled on the audience. As Alison Ut...Alison Uttley John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pilgrim's Progress as a horror comic. Irresistibly dra...Elizabeth Rignall John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When he was jailed during the first World War for refusing...Emrys Daniel Hughes John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'Here I also met with some books of a higher order, but which were then far beyond any comprehension. Among these were Hervey's "Meditations", "The Pilgrim's Progress", a...Thomas Carter John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Here, owing to the fact that I had not yet discovered the depths of my Philosopher's incompetence, and we spent three weary days, relieved only by "The Pilgrim's P...Freya Stark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'I can say this much that your paper has impressed me very much, and I shall never get the village out of my head; I know the place; it is called (to imitate Bunyan) the ...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanThe Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that whi...Print: Book
1700-1799'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and the conduct of the story; and it has had the best evi...Samuel Johnson John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1700-1799'Mary Gaywood giving evidence at the trial for theft of her servant Eleanor Clark at the Old Bailey, 21 October 1761: "Last Tuesday right she went away, and not coming ...Eleanor Clark John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'One day Maud stood in front of Grandfather's bookshelves in the parlour and made up her mind that she would read every book on them. There weren't all that many, even th...Lucy Maud Montgomery John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1850-1899'One of my aunts, living some two miles away, I discovered had a copy of Bunyan's immortal dream. The Bible and the pilgrim. Bunyan, for some reason, probably because of ...Thomas Burt John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charwoman, he bought up all the cheap reprints he could a...Philip Inman John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


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