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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[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849[Marginalia] Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
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'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
1700-1799Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'Christian went a long way to fling off his burden in the Pilgrims Progress. I doubt only my lungs. I find my br...Robert Southey John BunyanPilgrim's ProgressPrint: Book
1800-1849Saturday, 3 July 1830: 'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every day Book and with a better opinion of him than I ex...Walter Scott John BunyanJohn Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the...Print: 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
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
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
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(1) 'I am reading at present, what do you think? Our own friend "Pilgrim's Progress". It is one of those books that are usually read too early to appreciate, and perhap...Clive Staples Lewis 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
1700-1799I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anything which appeared to me calculated to remove my doub...Francis Place 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
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1850-1899		Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper: "Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What do I read? Well, novels, when I can get them. What d...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


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