← Explore on the interactive map

Publication of Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress

Type Event Region England Time 1678

In 1678 the first part of The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come, an unofficial work by the English Puritan writer John Buny…

Timeline

  1. 1675–1677Bedfordshire · BedfordshireDuring his second imprisonment and after his release Bunyan completed the first allegorical manuscript, using characters such as Christian and Faithful to mirror the Puritan trials of faith, in a style blending colloquial preaching with folk storytelling.
  2. 1678London · LondonThe bookseller Nathaniel Ponder published the first part in London; the first edition did not carry the author's real name. It sold rapidly and was reprinted within the year, establishing a new paradigm for the English religious allegorical novel.
  3. 1678–1680England · EnglandWithin a few years of the first edition, translations and pirated copies proliferated, and it became a shared classic among Nonconformists and the urban classes; its journey narrative structure was widely emulated in later English fiction and children's literature.

Sources