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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 · 319,761 ratings · 8,886 reviews · 517 distinct works • Similar authors

	Black Beauty really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 302,423 ratings — published 1877 — 1719 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 — 593 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 4.29 avg rating — 254 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
	Siyah İnci by Anna Sewell, Ayşe Berktay Hacımirzaoğlu (Adapter) 4.12 avg rating — 57 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
	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
	Black Beauty (Illustrated): The 1877 Classic Edition with Original Illustrations by Anna Sewell, Catherine Miles (introduction), Lucy Kemp-Welch (illustrator) 4.45 avg rating — 47 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 4.08 avg rating — 26 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 3.18 avg rating — 22 ratings — 8 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 3.59 avg rating — 17 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 4.29 avg rating — 14 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

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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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May 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages

41 votes, 18.6%

1880, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 776 pages

35 votes, 15.9%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages

29 votes, 13.2%

1852, Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, 438 pages

21 votes, 9.5%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages

15 votes, 6.8%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 201 pages

14 votes, 6.4%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages

13 votes, 5.9%

1833, Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 240 pages

11 votes, 5.0%

1886, The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy, 445 pages

10 votes, 4.5%

1869, Sentimental Education by Gustave Flaubert, 460 pages

9 votes, 4.1%

1864, Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages

8 votes, 3.6%

1785, The Adventures of Baron Münchausen by Rudolf Erich Raspe, 224 pages

8 votes, 3.6%

1859, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages

6 votes, 2.7%

220 total votes

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