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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


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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“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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Polls

August 2015 Old School Classic Poll

1818, Persuasion by Jane Austen, 249 pages
 
  35 votes, 25.9%

1899, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 195 pages
 
  22 votes, 16.3%

1759, Candide by Voltaire, 94 pages
 
  22 votes, 16.3%

1867, The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 240 pages
 
  11 votes, 8.1%

 
  11 votes, 8.1%

1603, Othello by William Shakespeare, 314 pages
 
  11 votes, 8.1%

1897, Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, 128 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages
 
  7 votes, 5.2%

1839, The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal, 532 pages
 
  5 votes, 3.7%

1721, Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, 339 pages
 
  4 votes, 3.0%

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