Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell
by Adrienne E. Gavin
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Black Beauty is among the top ten best selling novels for children ever written. This biography reveals the life of its author, Anna Sewell (1820-1878): her experiences, her beliefs and the sympathy with animals and their suffering that drove her to write her famous work.Tags
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Adrienne E. Gavin is Professor of English at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. Her publications include Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell (2004), critical editions of Caroline Clive's paul Ferroll (2008), Henry de Vere Stacpoole's The Blue Lagoon (2010), and C.L. Pirkis's The Experiences of Loveday Brooke, Lady Detective (2010), and the show more co-edited collections Mystery in Children's Literature (2001), Childhood in Edwardian Fiction (2009), and Writing Women of the Fin de Sicle (2011). show less
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