Anna Sewell

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Standard Name: Sewell, Anna
Birth Name: Anna Sewell
AS 's only published work was the novel Black Beauty, 1877, which received immediate acclaim and has been celebrated both as a key text advocating animal welfare and other social and political causes and as a best-selling classic of children's literature and of writing about horses.
Black and white photograph of a painting of Anna Sewell. The photograph is oval-shaped and she is shown from the waist up. She is wearing a dark dress that is tied with a ribbon at the waist, and has a straight neckline with lace trim. Her hair is short, dark, and curly.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Textual Features Frances Power Cobbe
It is, as the subtitle Reported by Her Mistress suggests, written in the voice of the author's Pomeranian.
Cobbe, Frances Power. The Confessions of a Lost Dog. Griffith and Farran, 1867.
prelims
It thus follows the tradition of the dog narrators of Francis Coventry 's Pompey the Little...
Textual Production Elizabeth Jane Howard
By the age of seven EJH wrote a poem about a lovebird (which she imagined as blue) flying out of a wood. When helpful grown-ups informed her that lovebirds were green she felt the effect...
Textual Production John Strange Winter
In over a hundred novels, JSW addressed a diverse range of subjects and genres. She continued to write throughout her career the tales of military life which were her first productions: her further titles in...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Alison Uttley
Rather stiff and formal in style, it advises somewhat predictable texts like Anna Sewell 's Black Beauty (which AU calls well-nigh forgotten by this generation), Louisa May Alcott 's Little Women, and other classics.
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Judd, Denis. Alison Uttley. Michael Joseph, 1986.
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