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
Anna S. Dolgorukaya Anna S. Dolgorukaya Anna Sergeyevna Dolgorukaya (1719–1778) was a Russian pedagogue, noble and courtier. She was the first principal of the Smolny Institute in Saint Petersburg in 1764–1764. She was the daughter of Councillor prince Sergei Petrovich Dolgoruky (1696-1761) and princess Irina Petrovna Galitzine (1700-1751) and sister of prince V. S. Dolgoruky (1724-1803), Russian ambassador in Prussia, and married in 1746 to prince Alexei Golitsyn (1713-1765). She had been a courtier prior to marriage. Described as well educated, intelligent and witty, she was appointed to the post of the newly founded Smolny Institute by Empress Catherine the Great. However, she