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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.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 30 March 1820
- Died
- 25 April 1878
- Works
- 420
Top works
- Best Horse Stories Ever
- Black Beauty to read aloud
- Best Stories of All Time : Black Beauty, White Dandy, the Secret Garden, Treasure Island
- Black Beauty (Original Text Edition)
- Black Beauty
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 146
- Total plays
- 2,473
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Anna+Sewell">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
· 2021 · cited 43,461x
- Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales.
· 1988 · cited 29,255x
- Antioxidant activity applying an improved ABTS radical cation decolorization assay
· 1999 · cited 21,306x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,936x
- Accurate structure prediction of biomolecular interactions with AlphaFold 3
· 2024 · cited 15,108x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “To my dear and honoured Mother, whose life, no less than her pen, has been devoted to the welfare of others, this little book is affectionately dedicated.”
- “The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a ploughed field, and on the other we looked over a gate at our master's house, which stood by the roadside; at the top of the meadow was a plantation of fir trees, and at the bottom a running brook overhung by a steep bank.”
- “[D]o your best wherever it is, and keep up your good name.”
- “[A] bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse.”
- “Oh! if people knew what a comfort to horses a light hand is.”
- “[T]hey always think they can improve upon nature and mend what God has made.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
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
~14 min read
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.