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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'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsmith's histories of England and Rome - but their basi...Robert Collyer John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with many of its stories... One effect was to lead me to...Joseph Barker John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Tennyson, Dickens, "The Cloister and the Hearth", and P...Stella Davies John BunyanPilgrim's Progress, ThePrint: Book
1800-1849'The book of my boyhood was, however, the "Pilgrim's Progress", a beautiful edition of which was given me by a paternal uncle. I used to read it from morning to night, ...John Leatherland John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then apparently never ventured beyond the New Testament, Pilgri...mother of Joseph Wright John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The only books he had were little nature-study notebooks, supplemented by his mother reading The Pilgrim's Progress aloud. Once she cheated by leaving out a lon...Alan Mathison Turing John BunyanThe Pilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Charles Evans John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Reginald Robson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1900-1945'The rest of the evening was devoted to John Bunyan. H.R. Smith read a paper dealing with the main episodes of his life. This was a valuable introduction and gave the rig...Ursula Unwin John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".'Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's Travels", and a book by R.M. Ballantyne about Hudson ...Edwin Muir John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849'This dream I knew not what to make of but I took some encouragement from it and the next day I was reading in pilgrims progress and was by a quotation directed to the 33...Joseph Mayett John BunyanPilgrim's progressPrint: Book
1850-1899'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta, as well as an abridged Faerie Queene and Pilgrim's ...Thomas Thompson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated romance: woodcuts of Christian's fight with Apollyon ...Samuel Bamford John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849
1850-1899		'When young, Frederick Rogers read not only the Bible as a thriller ("the men and women of the sacred books were as familiar to me as the men and women of Alexander Dumas...Frederick Rogers John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'Why the hell did you or your printers - a lousy lot whom I abominate - pass over a correction of mine and send me sprawling down to posterity as an ignoramus who thought...Robert Louis Stevenson John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered very heavy literature for a boy of fourteen or fifteen,...Edwin Whitlock John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[George Bernard] Shaw read the Bible all through; and he was much affected by Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress".'George Bernard Shaw John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899
1900-1945		'[Howard] Spring was the son of a Cardiff gardener who bought his children secondhand copies of "Tom Jones" and "Swiss Family Robinson", and read aloud from "Pilgrim's Pr...John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1850-1899'[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Progress, Milton, Cowper, Thomson's Seasons and Young's ...Joseph Malaby Dent John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book


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