The "Pilgrim's Progress" appeared in Bedford Jail.

The "Life and Times" of Baxter, Eliot's "Monarchia of Man," and Penn's "No Cross, No Crown," were written by prisoners.

Sir Walter Raleigh wrote "The History of the World" during his imprisonment of thirteen years.

Luther translated the Bible while confined in the Castle of Wartburg.

For twenty years Dante worked in exile, and even under sentence of death.
His works were burned in public after his death; but genius will not burn.
Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious.