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OverviewAI-generated
Anna Sewell was a British author who lived from 1820 to 1878. Her bibliography includes numerous titles, with "Black Beauty" appearing frequently among her top works. Other listed publications include "White Dandy," "Best Horse Stories Ever," and "Black Beauty to read aloud." Records indicate she has 420 associated works, while other databases list counts of five or six.
Sewell is also represented in audio archives, with a playcount of 2,473 and 146 listeners. A quote attributed to her states, "Oh! if people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is." Her legacy is documented in various digital collections, including a Commons gallery and creator page.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Europeana Sparql, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1820-03-30 ) 30 March 1820, Great Yarmouth , Norfolk , England
- Died
- 25 April 1878 (1878-04-25) (aged 58) , Old Catton , Norfolk, England
- Resting place
- Quaker burial ground, Lamas
- Occupation
- Novelist
- Period
- 19th century
- Genre
- Children's literature
- Parents
- Mary Wright Sewell , Isaac Phillip Sewell
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Anna
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Great Yarmouth
- Place of death
- Norwich
- Occupation
- children's writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- cause of death
- hepatitis
- Commons category
- Anna Sewell
- date of birth
- 1820-03-20
- date of death
- 1878-04-25
- Commons gallery
- Anna Sewell
- place of burial
- Norfolk
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Anna Sewell
- P8168
- Annika Bryn
- Commons Creator page
- Anna Sewell
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (7)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
6 objects attributed to Anna Sewell, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Anna Sewell (/ˈsjuːəl/; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist who is known for her only book, Black Beauty, a novel about a horse. She was born into a Quaker family in Norfolk and moved to London as a baby. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was the author of popular children's books. Sewell never married and always lived with her parents, in Sussex, Gloucestershire and Norfolk. A chronic illness left her leading a life of invalidism, with trips to spa resorts in England and continental Europe. She joined her mother in carrying out charitable work and also edited her mother's books. Black Beauty was written between 1871 and 1877 and published a few months before Sewell's death.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Anna Sewell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.