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Author: Bunyan
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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
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
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
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
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
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
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"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
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
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"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
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
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'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
1700-1799?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my curiosity in an extraordinary degree. There was "Chri...Samuel Bamford John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which entrance young minds. The religious meaning of the ...William Edwin Adams John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1700-1799?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor Watts hymns for me and told me the meaning of them ...Joseph Mayett 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
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



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