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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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
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...
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...
Education Enid Blyton
Enid later recalled in vivid detail the first school she went to, Tresco, which was run by the Misses Read in their private house. She recalled, too, the most important texts among her early reading:...

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