John Bunyan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 17 pages of information about the life of John Bunyan.

John Bunyan Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 17 pages of information about the life of John Bunyan.
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John Bunyan, author of the immortal allegory The Pilgrim's Progress (1678, 1684), was born in November 1628 in Elstow, near Bedford, to Thomas Bunyan and his second wife, Margaret Bentley Bunyan. Not much is known about the details of Bunyan's life; his autobiographical memoir, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666), is concerned with external events only as they impinge upon spiritual experience. His family was humble though not wholly impoverished, and after learning to read at a grammar school he became a brazier or tinker like his father, following an itinerant trade that seems to have been much despised at the time.

The year 1644, when Bunyan turned sixteen, proved shockingly eventful. Within a few months his mother and sister died; his father married for the third time; and Bunyan was drafted into the Parliamentary army, in which he did garrison duty for the next three years. He never...

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