| √ | Century of Experience | Evidence | Name of Reader / Listener / Reading Group | Author of Text | Title of Text | Form of Text | | |
| 1800-1849 | 'The son of a Methodist farm worker, he studied Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" and "The Two Covenants".' | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | [Permitted Sunday reading for the children of the family]. | Mary Vivian (Molly) Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The mother of Joseph Wright, the millworker-philologist, did not learn to read until age forty-eight, and then appare... | mother of Joseph Wright | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849
1850-1899 | Henry Mayhew interviews a crossing sweeper:
"Sometimes, after I get home, I read a book, if I can borrow one. What ... | | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Philip Inman conveyed a ... specific sense of the uses of literacy for an early Labour MP. The son of a widowed charw... | Philip Inman | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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... | Hugh Miller | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'When radical weaver Samuel Bamford first discovered Pilgrim's Progress, it impressed him as a thrilling illustrated r... | Samuel Bamford | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Soldier's son Joseph Barker... first read the Bible "chiefly as a work of history and was very greatly delighted with... | Joseph Barker | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'Thomas Thompson, from a family of Lancashire weavers, grew up with tales of Robin Hood and the Black Hole of Calctta,... | Thomas Thompson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 fa... | Frederick Rogers | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'As a child, William Heaton the Yorkshire weaver-poet, "rambled with Christian from his home in the wilderness to the ... | William Heaton | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | '"I made no distinction between Thackeray's Barry Lyndon and Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel - or between Pilgrim's Progress... | Herbert Hodge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899
1900-1945 | 'Elizabeth Rignall, a London painter's daughter, was not permitted to read anything else on Sundays, so she treated Pi... | Elizabeth Rignall | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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... | Harry West | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Emrys Daniel Hughes, son of a Welsh miner, first treated Pilgrim's Progress as an illustrated adventure story. When h... | Emrys Daniel Hughes | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | I neither concealed my doubts nor my fears but communicated them freely to several persons, no one however said anythi... | Francis Place | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | My recollection of 'The Pilgrim's Progress' is a little clearer, as it was the impression of much physical activity an... | Patricia Beer | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | My companions at the breakfast-table through this summer were many of our popular English Classics. Among these may b... | John Cole | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 w... | Alison Uttley | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[J.M. Dent's] reading was marked by the autodidact's characteristic enthusiasm and spottiness. He knew Pilgrim's Prog... | Joseph Malaby Dent | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | "When she was seven ... [Frances Power Cobbe's] interest in religious subjects had been activated by hearing Bunyan re... | Frances Power Cobbe | John Bunyan | | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | "Emmeline Pankhurst (b. 1858) emphasized the value of her childhood reading in forming her guiding principles. Uncle ... | Emmeline Pankhurst | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | '[Edwin] Whitlock... borrowed books from a schoolmaster and from neighbours: "Most of them would now be considered ver... | Edwin Whitlock | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | 'Stella Davies's father would read to his children from the Bible, "Pilgrim's Progress", Walter Scott, Longfellow, Ten... | Stella Davies | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: 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 pe... | Gerald Massey | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Robert Collyer grew up in a blacksmith's home with only a few books - "Pilgrim's Progress", "Robinson Crusoe", Goldsm... | Robert Collyer | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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... | | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 ever... | Lucy Maud Montgomery | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: 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 pi... | Thomas Burt | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?The first book which attracted my particular notice was "The Pilgrim?s Progress", with rude woodcuts; it excited my c... | Samuel Bamford | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | ?Excepting "Pilgrim?s Progress", "Gulliver?s Travels" and the "Arabian Nights", I saw and read none of the books which... | William Edwin Adams | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | ?I made very little progress in learning until the year 1794 only my mother borrowed the pilgrim?s progress and Doctor... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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... | Thomas Carter | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'I am reading old Bunyan again after the long lapse of years, and am profoundly struck with the true genius manifested... | George Eliot (pseud) | John Bunyan | unknown | Print: 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 pilgrim... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'in a few days after this I met with a book written by Mr Bunyan the title of the book was the two Covenants in this b... | Joseph Mayett | John Bunyan | Two covenants | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799
1800-1849 | '"I had often read Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress", recalled [...] William Brown, "and considered myself like the apostat... | William Brown | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'Called one morning on the Rev S Hilliard & saw Bunyan's "Pitcher" and several pages of his writings in some documents... | John Cole | John Bunyan | [Pitcher and writings] | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | [Marginalia]
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1850-1899 | 'there was nothing in the house which was worth reading, apart from the Bible, "The Pilgrim's Progress", "Gulliver's T... | Edwin Muir | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 k... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | The Pilgrim?s Progress from this world to that which is to come, delivered under the similitude of a dream | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the death of Mr Badman's ... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1900-1945 | Passages transcribed at length into E. M. Forster, Commonplace Book (1937) include the description of the suicide of J... | Edward Morgan Forster | John Bunyan | The Life and Death of Mr Badman | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | 'Johnson praised John Bunyan highly. "His 'Pilgrim's Progress' has great merit, both for invention, imagination, and t... | Samuel Johnson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress, The | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | 'The [Tennyson] boys had one great advantage [as home-educated pupils], the run of their father's excellent library. A... | 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 "Pilg... | Elizabeth Gurney | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1700-1799 | Robert Southey to Horace Walpole Bedford, 26 June 1796: 'Christian went a long way to fling off his burden in the Pil... | Robert Southey | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book |
| 1800-1849 | Saturday, 3 July 1830:
'I read Southey's Pilgrim's Progress and think of reviewing the same [...] Read Hone's Every... | Walter Scott | John Bunyan | John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, With Life of the Author | 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 spr... | Robert Louis Stevenson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 lif... | Mrs Smith | John Bunyan | Grace Abounding | Print: 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 lif... | Charles Evans | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 lif... | Reginald Robson | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 lif... | Ursula Unwin | John Bunyan | Pilgrim's Progress | Print: 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 lif... | Charles Stansfield | John Bunyan | | Print: 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 Bunyan | The Pilgrim's Progress | Print: Book, Unknown |