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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
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
1850-1899'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested in the simple, vigorous, rhythmic style.'George Eliot (pseud) John BunyanunknownPrint: 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
1800-1849'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents there preserved.'John Cole John Bunyan[Pitcher and writings]Print: Book
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
1900-1945Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's wife (opening 'Now, said she, I am going to rest for...Edward Morgan Forster John BunyanThe Life and Death of Mr BadmanPrint: Book
1900-1945Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of John Cox, from chapter 19 of John Bunyan's Life and D...Edward Morgan Forster John BunyanThe Life and Death of Mr BadmanPrint: 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
1800-1849'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. Amongst the authors most read by them were Shakespear...Tennyson children (boys)John Bunyan Print: 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...Mrs Smith John BunyanGrace AboundingPrint: Book


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