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Anna Sewell biography

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  • NAME: Anna Sewell
  • OCCUPATION: Author
  • BIRTH DATE: March 30, 1820
  • DEATH DATE: April 25, 1878
  • PLACE OF BIRTH: Yarmouth, Norfolk, England
  • PLACE OF DEATH: Old Catton, Norfolk, England
  • Full Name: Anna Mary Sewell

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Anna Sewell was the British author of the classic children's horse story Black Beauty.

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Anna Sewell was born on March 30, 1820, in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England. After a childhood injury, she was confined to her house as an invalid and got around largely by carriage horse. Sewell spent her last years writing the children's classic Black Beauty (1877), a fictional autobiography of a gentle, highbred horse. She died of hepatitis in 1878, just five months after her book was published.

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