Mary Wright Sewell Mary Wright Sewell Mary Wright Sewell (; 6 April 1797 – 10 June 1884) was an English poet and children's author. Though popular for writing juvenile bestsellers in her day, she is better known today as the mother of Anna Sewell, the author of "Black Beauty". Mary was born into the Quaker faith in 1797, and she married Isaac Sewell on the 15 June 1819 at Lamas in Norfolk. Her daughter Anna was born in 1820 and her son Philip two years later. Her husband Isaac had a number of ill-advised businesses and he declared himself bankrupt after his son
Children of Light (book) stage name of Lu Anne Bourgeois Morgen, a successful actress who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. Gordon, an alcoholic drug addict whose second wife has just left him, goes on location to Mexico where they're filming Walker's screenplay which is an adaptation of Kate Chopin's "The Awakening" that Lu Anne is starring in. Walker discovers that she has gone off of her medication in an attempt to more fully embody her character. Children of Light (book) Children of Light is the fourth published novel by U. S. writer Robert Stone. It was published in 1986. In the front matter of the