Anna Sewell or US $4,630 in 2017) and the book was published the same year. After the publication of her only novel, Sewell fell seriously ill. Sewell was in extreme pain and completely bedridden for the following months, and she died on 25 April 1878 of hepatitis or tuberculosis. She was buried on 30 April 1878 at Quaker burial-ground in Lammas near Buxton, Norfolk, not far from Norwich. Sewell's birthplace in Church Plain, Great Yarmouth has been the home to a museum and a tea shop. The house in Old Catton where she wrote "Black Beauty" is now known as Anna Sewell
William Sewell (poet) William Sewell (poet) William Seymour (Bill) Sewell (1 December 1951 – 29 January 2003) was a New Zealand poet. He was a Burns Fellow at Otago University, Dunedin in 1981–82. He was a frequent reviewer of books, particularly for the periodical "New Zealand Books", to which he was appointed co-editor in 1997. He was also a book editor. He died of cancer in Wellington. He published three collections of poems: "Solo Flight" (1982), "Wheels within Wheels" (1983) and "Making the Far Land Glow" (1986) and also "A Guide to the Rimutaka Forest Park" (1989). His poems have a link to