The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois: “the dark woodwork of the bookcases, where Fox's “Lives of the Martyrs” nestled happily beside “The Whole Duty of Man.””
The Bully Pulpit by Doris Kearns Goodwin: “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 by Patti Smith: “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! by Charles Kingsley: “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.””