The Pilgrim's Progress name "The Similitude of a Dream", the progressive rock band of Neal Morse released a concept album based on "The Pilgrim's Progress" in November 2016. A number of illustrations created by Henry Melville appear in the Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Books under the editorship of Letitia Elizabeth Landon. Each is accompanied by a poem, either by Bernard Barton or by Miss Landon herself. These plates are as follows: Charles Dickens' book "Oliver Twist" (1838) is subtitled 'The Parish Boy's Progress'. The title of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1847–8 novel "Vanity Fair" alludes to the location in Bunyan's work. Mark Twain gave
Charles Dickens a regular visitor to his Fulham house, excited by Hogarth's friendship with a hero of his, Walter Scott, and enjoying the company of Hogarth's three daughters—Georgina, Mary, and nineteen-year-old Catherine. Dickens made rapid progress both professionally and socially. He began a friendship with William Harrison Ainsworth, the author of the highwayman novel "Rookwood" (1834), whose bachelor salon in Harrow Road had become the meeting place for a set that included Daniel Maclise, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, and George Cruikshank. All these became his friends and collaborators, with the exception of Disraeli, and he met his first publisher, John Macrone, at