Anna Sewell

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Standard Name: Sewell, Anna
Birth Name: Anna Sewell
AS 's only published work was the novel Black Beauty, 1877, which received immediate acclaim and has been celebrated both as a key text advocating animal welfare and other social and political causes and as a best-selling classic of children's literature and of writing about horses.
Black and white photograph of a painting of Anna Sewell. The photograph is oval-shaped and she is shown from the waist up. She is wearing a dark dress that is tied with a ribbon at the waist, and has a straight neckline with lace trim. Her hair is short, dark, and curly.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alison Uttley
Rather stiff and formal in style, it advises somewhat predictable texts like Anna Sewell 's Black Beauty (which AU calls well-nigh forgotten by this generation), Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, and other classics.
Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph.
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Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
By the age of seven EJH wrote a poem about a lovebird (which she imagined as blue) flying out of a wood. When helpful grown-ups informed her that lovebirds were green she felt the effect...
Textual Features Caroline Norton
The Rebel, spoken by an imprisoned Irish harper who weep[s,] to think upon my country's chain, suggests both a sympathy with the cause of Ireland and the influence of CN 's friend Thomas Moore
Textual Features Noel Streatfeild
The two children at the centre of this story, Peter and Santa, find themselves threatened with being sent to live in an orphanage when their aunt dies. Instead, they run away to join their uncle...
Textual Features Frances Power Cobbe
It is, as the subtitle Reported by Her Mistress suggests, written in the voice of the author's Pomeranian.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Confessions of a Lost Dog. Griffith and Farran.
prelims
It thus follows the tradition of the dog narrators of Francis Coventry 's Pompey the Little...
Intertextuality and Influence Shena Mackay
The book blends the ordinary and extraordinary. The two girls devour books: Anna Sewell 's Black Beauty, The Valley of Doom, Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, Lucy Maud Montgomery 's Anne...
Intertextuality and Influence Beatrix Potter
Of the first three stories, Carrier's Bob tells how a waggoner's terrier, Bob, is neglected and ill-treated by the widow after his master's death; The Mole Catcher's Burying describes how, as a village mole-catcher lies...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Sewell
When MS was sixty she began her writing career in earnest. She showed some of her poems to the publisher Henry S. King , whose opinion that This will do
Bayly, Mary. The Life and Letters of Mrs. Sewell. James Nisbet.
132, 141
encouraged her to...
Friends, Associates Sarah Stickney Ellis
In a letter written from Pau to her stepdaughter in March 1840, SSE expressed a wish to see her friend (and relation by marriage), the physically disabled Anna Sewell . She exclaimed: [o]h! how I...
Friends, Associates Sarah Stickney Ellis
Among her few writing friends were Mary Howitt and her relations by marriage Mary and Anna Sewell . She greatly admired without personally knowing Elizabeth Fry , and felt a personal connection to Charlotte Brontë
Friends, Associates Jean Ingelow
JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Sewell
Mary Sewell was living at 26 Church Plain, Yarmouth when she bore her daughter, Anna , who became famous as the author of Black Beauty.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Sewell
MS 's daughter Anna predeceased her.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Family and Intimate relationships Joanna Cannan
JC 's three daughters (Josephine , Diana , and Christine Pullein-Thompson ) all had successful writing careers, chiefly in the pony-book genre which their mother had originated. Like JC and her sisters, they began...

Timeline

1823: John Jarrold founded a press, with his wife...

Writing climate item

1823

John Jarrold founded a press, with his wife and four sons, at 3 Cockney Lane, Norwich.

1893: Margaret Marshall Saunders published her...

Writing climate item

1893

Margaret Marshall Saunders published her bestselling fictional autobiography of a dog, entitled Beautiful Joe, under the pseudonym Marshall Saunders .

Texts

Sewell, Anna. Black Beauty. Jarrold and Sons, 1877.