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Anna Sewell

Born

in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, The United Kingdom

March 30, 1820

Died

April 25, 1878

Genre

Children's, Fiction, Nature

Influences

Mary Wright Sewell

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Anna Sewell 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. Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty, but long enough to see her only novel become a success.

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Average rating: 4.01 · 316,087 ratings · 8,603 reviews · 519 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Beauty really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 299,047 ratings — published 1877 — 4443 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty, Young Folks' Edition 4.28 avg rating — 589 ratings — published 1877 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty / The Call of the Wild by Anna Sewell, E. Raymond Kinstler (Illustrator), Jack London 4.30 avg rating — 251 ratings — published 1963	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Melnais skaistulis & Noslēpumainais dārzs by Anna Sewell, Zane Rozenberga (translator), Frances Hodgson Burnett (writer) 4.31 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Siyah İnci by Anna Sewell, Ayşe Berktay Hacımirzaoğlu (Adapter) 4.09 avg rating — 53 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty (Illustrated): The 1877 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations by Anna Sewell, Catherine Miles (introduction), Lucy Kemp-Welch (illustrator) 4.50 avg rating — 38 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, L.M. Montgomery, Robert Louis Stevenson 4.12 avg rating — 25 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty: Abridged Novels With Review Questions 4.18 avg rating — 22 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Black Beauty Illustrated 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MINI CLASSIC - BLACK BEAUTY 3.47 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“It is good people who make good places.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

tags: attitude, genius-loci, goodness, people, places, spirit, warmth, welcoming

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“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
― Anna Sewell , Black Beauty

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“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

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April 2015 Old School Classics Poll

Which book would you like to read for our April 2015 Old School Classics group read?

1868, Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, 449 pages

15 votes, 31.3%

800, Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by Unknown, 213 pages

15 votes, 31.3%

1868, The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins, 528 pages

5 votes, 10.4%

1895, The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, 76 pages

5 votes, 10.4%

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages

4 votes, 8.3%

1874, Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, 480 pages

3 votes, 6.3%

1842, Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol, 464 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

48 total votes

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