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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
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- cause of death
- hepatitis
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- Anna Sewell
- date of birth
- 1820-03-20
- date of death
- 1878-04-25
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- Anna Sewell
- place of burial
- Norfolk
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Anna Sewell
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- Anna Sewell
- manner of death
- natural causes
Sources (7)
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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.