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Anna Sewell (/ ˈ sj uː əl /; [2] 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) [1] was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. [ 3 ]
Anna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, England, and had a brother named Philip, who was an engineer in Europe. At the age of 14, Anna fell while walking home from school in the rain and injured both ankles. [4] Through the mistreatment of the injury, she became unable to walk or stand for any length of time for the rest of her life.
Mary Wright Sewell (/ ˈ sj uː əl /; 6 April 1797 – 10 June 1884) was an English poet and writer of children's literature. Though popular for writing juvenile bestsellers in her day, she is better known today as the mother of Anna Sewell , the author of Black Beauty .
Anna Sewell, author of the children’s story "Black Beauty", was Philip’s sister and lived in the White House, Spixworth Road, Spixworth. Philip owned a mare called Black Bess which used to draw his carriage along Spixworth Road and it might be supposed that Bess was the original inspiration for Black Beauty, and the barn a prototype for ...
Chitty took her childhood love of horses and wrote two books on the care of them. She wrote her first biography on Anna Sewell, who wrote Black Beauty, in 1972. [5] This was the start of her writing biographies, mostly on Victorian era figures including Charles Kingsley, Sir Henry Newbolt, and Gwen John. [2]
Black Beauty is a 1994 family drama film, written and directed by Caroline Thompson in her directorial debut. [2] The fifth cinematic adaptation [3] of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel of the same name, the film stars Andrew Knott, who, the year prior, had played Dicken in The Secret Garden (another of Caroline Thompson’s film credits, as screenwriter), as well as Sean Bean, David Thewlis and Alan ...
Black Beauty is a 1921 American silent film version of Anna Sewell's 1877 novel of the same name. Black Beauty is an autobiography of a horse, who tells the story of his life and of the people surrounding it. [1] This film exists in an incomplete state with four of seven reels preserved at the Library of Congress. [2] [3] [4]
Anna Seward [3] (12 December 1742 [notes 1] [4] [5] [notes 2] – 25 March 1809) was an English Romantic poet, often called the Swan of Lichfield. She benefited from her father's progressive views on female education .