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.

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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 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...
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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