Anna Sewell old Lammas Quaker meeting house. Anna Sewell Anna Sewell (; 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 novel "Black Beauty," one of the top ten best selling novels for children ever created. Sewell was born on 30 March 1820 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, into a devoutly Quaker family. Her father was Isaac Phillip Sewell (1793–1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798–1884), was a successful author of children's books. She had one sibling, a younger brother named Philip. The children were largely educated at home by
Alice Maud Sewell she had seven children. In 1912 she and Ethel Osborne co-founded the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. The club was modeled on the London Lyceum Club, with membership open to women with a university education. Sewell was also a member of the Country Women's Association, the Victoria League, and the Ormond Women's Association. She died on 16 February 1971 in Berwick. Alice Maud Sewell Lady Alice Maud Sewell (1881 - 1971) was the first woman to win the Wyselaskie scholarship in classical and comparative philology and logic. She was a co-founder of the Lyceum Club, Melbourne. Sewell née Cunning was born on