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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.
In Gilbert Morris’ The Fields of Glory, The novel brings historical politics into a fictional dynastic story and includes the religious world associated with John Bunyan. In Jody Hedlund’s The Preacher’s Bride, Inspired by John Bunyan and his second wife Elizabeth, the novel places domestic care within the Restoration campaign against unlicensed Nonconformist preaching.
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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The Wakefield Dynasty follows two interconnected English families—the aristocratic Wakefields and the humbler Morgans—from the Reformation through the Napoleonic era. Their descendants encounter biblical translation, confessional persecution, civil war, revival religion and international conflict. The seven novels combine dynastic saga, court politics and Christian historical fiction. Historical rulers,…
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