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Historical person
d. 1691
Elizabeth married the widowed John Bunyan in 1659 and entered a household with four children from his first marriage. Soon afterwards he was arrested for unauthorised preaching, leaving her to sustain the family while pregnant and with limited resources.
She appeared before judges, including Chief Justice Matthew Hale, to argue for Bunyan’s release, but without success. She outlived him and died in 1691. The surviving record preserves her courage in public petitions but gives little secure information about her birth, family name or private life.
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The Hearts of Faith collection presents three historical romances inspired by real Christian couples whose private relationships developed amid public conflict. The books move from Restoration England and the Oregon mission movement to pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, placing courtship within arguments about religious liberty, mission, conscience and political resistance. Each…
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