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                        How Tortoises Can Connect Us, Heal Us, and Offer Hope
                        02 Nov 2025 16:05 GMT
                        
                           … .
                          MB: How does your book relate to your background and … is, first and foremost, a novel. But through fiction, many powerful … legacy of animal autobiographies like Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty and Margaret …  in the story, the book is both timely and timeless …
                        
                       
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                        Former astronomer’s folly transformed into glamorous stylish home
                        02 Nov 2025 06:28 GMT
                        
 …  years; in 1864, the celebrated author Anna Sewell lived at Moorlands Court, and …  inspired scenes depicted in her novel ‘Black Beauty’. Ashford’s Tower …
                       
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                        Morgan Freeman's 'five favorite books of all time' – one will surprise you
                        06 Mar 2025 11:06 GMT
                        
 … passionate reader. His favorite books were recently shared on  …  Freeman revealed the five books that had a profound  …  – Anna Sewell Freeman gushed about how Black Beauty by Anna Sewell opened  … maritime adventures. The iconic novel by Herman Melville left a …
                       
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                        Morgan Freeman names his five 'favourite books of all time'
                        06 Mar 2025 09:12 GMT
                        
                           …  world too.
                          Black Beauty – Anna Sewell
                          Freeman also admitted Black Beauty … epic novel by American writer Herman Melville. He said the book  … Peter Matthiessen is a 1965 novel that focuses on the  … 1998 best-selling book, The Poisonwood Bible. The novel tells an  …
                        
                       
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                        ‘A sick wish fulfilment fantasy, so badly written’: Harry Ricketts’ biggest book regret
                        11 Dec 2024 04:02 GMT
                        
                           …  certain phrases.
                          The book that made me cry
                          Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty … ’ pick for best NZ novel.
                          The book character I identify with most … . See above.
                          Encounter with an author
                          At the 2014 Writers and …
                        
                       
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                        All Booked: Favorites for the Holiday Season
                        09 Dec 2024 19:28 GMT
                        
                           … . While Anna Sewell only lived for five months after the book’s publication …  Amy Tan’s best-known novel The Joy Luck Club expertly … s 1993 young-adult dystopian novel, depicts a society that has … B. Museum of Art
                          Local Author Book Festival
                          Sunday, December 8, 2 …
                        
                       
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                        The books that inspired Morgan Freeman the most: “My imagination was cranked high all the time”
                        04 Dec 2024 21:14 GMT
                        
                           … youth spent devouring as many books as possible that initially  … isn’t a one-book kind of guy. Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty … then graduated into regular novels, not history books.”
                          The inspiration was  … own childhood occupying himself with books of a very similar  …
                        
                       
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                        Celia Brayfield on How Anna Sewell Changed Animal Rights
                        16 Oct 2023 10:43 GMT
                        
 …  epic poetry to contemporary novels. How did literature develop … treated animals. Although her novel Black Beauty has since …  to author Celia Brayfield (Writing Black Beauty: Anna Sewell and  … the Story of Animal Rights) about a remarkable book …
                       
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                        “It was the first book I read”: the novel that changed Morgan Freeman’s life
                        08 Oct 2024 19:44 GMT
                        
                           …  curious that several of the novels Freeman holds closest to his …  didn’t start there.
                          Instead, Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty served as …  forgotten. “It was the first book I read,” he told the …  a big deal.” Since being published in 1877, Black Beauty has …
                        
                       
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                        Once upon a time: Chichester Probus Club members recall favourite childhood books
                        13 Sep 2024 11:56 GMT
                        
                           … Visit Shots! now
                          Our favourite books in childhood lived on in …  behind some favourite children’s books.
                          First up was Black Beauty …  ponies.
                          It was written by Anna Sewell, who led a nomadic life …  rejected six times by publishers. She self-published it and it was …