David Copperfield on The Book of Martyrs: “Of all the moveables in it, I must have been impressed by a certain old bureau of some dark wood in the parlour (the tile-floored kitchen was the general sitting-room), with a retreating top which opened, let down, and became a desk, within which was a large quarto edition of Foxe's Book of Martyrs.”
The Bully Pulpit on Foxe's Book of Martyrs: “For a child whose family possessed a scant three works—the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress, and Foxe's Book of Martyrs—the experience of “opening those boxes...””
Just Kids on Foxe's Book of Martyrs: “When my mother discovered that I had hidden her crimson copy of Foxe's Book of Martyrs beneath my pillow, with hopes of absorbing its meaning, she sat me down and began the laborious process of teaching me to read.”
Westward Ho! on Foxe's Book of Martyrs: “Amyas sat in the old bay-window, where he had sat when he was a little tiny boy, and read “King Arthur,” and “Fox's Martyrs,” and “The Cruelties of the Spaniards.””