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Anna Sewell

1820 - 1878

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Anna Sewell (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). Anna Sewell is the 2,711th most popular writer (up from 3,310th in 2024), the 2,258th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,382nd in 2019) and the 249th most popular British Writer.

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Among Writers

Among writers, Anna Sewell ranks 2,711 out of 7,302. Before her are Pierre Grimal, Peter Høeg, Theodorus Gaza, Vazha-Pshavela, Francisco Ayala, and Mihail Sebastian. After her are Yi Kwang-su, Josef Jungmann, Dorothea von Schlegel, Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Mago, and Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft.

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Among people born in 1820, Anna Sewell ranks 35. Before her are Prince Henry of the Netherlands, Jeanne Duval, Eugène Fromentin, Princess Alexandrine of Baden, Afanasy Fet, and Alexander Cartwright. After her are Mirko Petrović-Njegoš, Reinhart Dozy, Arvid Posse, Georg Curtius, Maria Severa Onofriana, and Princess Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Among people deceased in 1878, Anna Sewell ranks 37. Before her are Mohammed bin Thani, Charles Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao, Karl Gutzkow, Đura Jakšić, Maurice Joly, and Josip Runjanin. After her are Philipp Johann Ferdinand Schur, August Heinrich Petermann, Crawford Long, Karl, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Temistocle Solera, and Cirilo Antonio Rivarola.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Sewell ranks 2,258 out of NaN. Before her are Elizabeth de Burgh (1289), Andy Gibb (1958), Edward Walter Maunder (1851), Katie Johnson (1878), Alexander Wilson (1766), and Joe Davis (1901). After her are Jimmy Jones (1928), Isabella Beeton (1836), Steve Winwood (1948), Patrick O'Brian (1914), Stephen Morris (1957), and Wilfred Owen (1893).

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Among Writers In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Anna Sewell ranks 249. Before her are Walter Bagehot (1826), Sophie Kinsella (1969), Michael Grant (1914), Thomas Percy (1729), John Wyndham (1903), and David Ogilvy (1911). After her are Patrick O'Brian (1914), Wilfred Owen (1893), Branwell Brontë (1817), George Herbert (1593), J. B. Priestley (1894), and Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868).

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