![]() ![]() Mary, less well known today was a popular author of juvenile best sellers, writing stories with titles such as “Mother’s Last Words”, “Our Father’s Care” and “Thy Poor Brother”. *This article was originally published in the August 2001 edition of Soulīoth Mary Sewell nee Wright and her daughter Anna were authors. (Biographical note from "Black Beauty", Blackie & Son Ltd., Glasgow, ca 1950s.) It has been translated into French, Italian, German and has been described as 'one of themost successful animal stories ever written." Anna wrote only one book, Black Beauty, which was published 1877, and which sold over 100,000 copies in the first twenty years. Her mother wrote several moral tales in verse for children. ![]() She was lame from childhood and spent most of her life as a semi-invalid living at Brighton where her father had a position as a Bank Manager. ![]() "Anna Sewell was born in 1820 and died in 1878. ![]()
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