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Historical person
1628–1688
John Bunyan was born near Bedford and worked as a brazier before joining a Nonconformist congregation and becoming a widely heard lay preacher. After the Restoration he refused to stop preaching without an official licence and was imprisoned for much of the period from 1660 to 1672.
During and after his imprisonment Bunyan wrote religious works including Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim’s Progress. His plain style and allegorical imagination gave his books an influence far beyond English Nonconformity, while his family depended heavily on the advocacy and labour of his second wife Elizabeth.
Series
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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