Mary Wright Sewell
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Mary Wright Sewell was the mother of Anna Sewell
a very well known children's author who wrote Black Beauty
. Mary, less known today, was a then-popular author of juvenile bestsellers.
Mary was born into the Quaker
faith in 1797, and lived at the Blue Lodge, Wick from 1858 to 1864. She had a great love of poetry and wrote "Mother's Last Words" (which sold millions of copies throughout the world) while living at Wick, near Bristol.
Anna Sewell
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, best known as the author of the classic novel Black Beauty.-Biography:Anna Mary Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England into a devoutly Quaker family...
a very well known children's author who wrote Black Beauty
Black Beauty
Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate bestseller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, long enough to see her first and only...
. Mary, less known today, was a then-popular author of juvenile bestsellers.
Mary was born into the Quaker
Religious Society of Friends
The Religious Society of Friends, or Friends Church, is a Christian movement which stresses the doctrine of the priesthood of all believers. Members are known as Friends, or popularly as Quakers. It is made of independent organisations, which have split from one another due to doctrinal differences...
faith in 1797, and lived at the Blue Lodge, Wick from 1858 to 1864. She had a great love of poetry and wrote "Mother's Last Words" (which sold millions of copies throughout the world) while living at Wick, near Bristol.
External links
- Short biography
- Mother's Last Words by Mary Sewell 19th Century copy of Mother's Last Words.