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
Dickens of London was based on the detailed research he made while writing the screenplay. Each of the 13 episodes of "Dickens of London" is a separate flashback, with Charles Dickens (Roy Dotrice), by now an internationally famous novelist, in America during a reading tour of 1869, looking back over his life. Dickens the boy (Simon Bell) is shown unhappily pasting labels onto pots of shoe blacking, while Dickens as a young man (Gene Foad) is revealed as a young genius who is becoming aware of his powers and trying to find his own way in the world. Mary Hogarth (Lois Baxter) is