"Black Beauty (1971 film) Black Beauty is a 1971 British drama film, based on the Anna Sewell novel of the same name. This movie is the fourth feature film adaptation of Anna Sewell's story. The movie was directed by James Hill. Lionel Bart provided the rousing score. The film's cast includes Walter Slezak, Mark Lester, Uschi Glas, Patrick Mower and John Nettleton. Black Beauty is a stallion who, as a foal in England c 1856, is born in front of a boy named Joe to whom it is given by his father. He is taken by a brutal squire, who"
"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 their mother due to a"
"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"
"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"
"in Old Catton, Sewell wrote the manuscript of ""Black Beauty"" – in the period between 1871 and 1877. During this time her health was declining; she was often so weak that she was confined to her bed. Writing was a challenge. She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed. Although the book is now considered a children's classic, Sewell originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said ""a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses"". In many"
"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"
"Black Beauty (1928 song) Black Beauty is a 1928 jazz composition by Duke Ellington. According to Ellington scholar A.H. Lawrence, the composition started out as a solo piano piece titled ""Firewater"" that Ellington played at the Cotton Club at the end of intermissions, as his band members returned to the stage. After he orchestrated and recorded the tune, he decided the title did not suit the work. He renamed the piece ""Black Beauty"" and dedicated it to singer, dancer, and comedian Florence Mills, who had died the previous year. It became one of Ellington's signature songs. Ellington first recorded it"
"write, ""Potter was the first to use pictures as well as words to tell the story, incorporating coloured illustration with text, page for page."" Another classic of the period is Anna Sewell's animal novel ""Black Beauty"" (1877). In the latter years of the 19th century, precursors of the modern picture book were illustrated books of poems and short stories produced by English illustrators Randolph Caldecott, Walter Crane, and Kate Greenaway. These had a larger proportion of pictures to words than earlier books, and many of their pictures were in colour. Some British artists made their living illustrating novels and children's"
"American Beauty (Ferber novel) American Beauty is a 1931 novel by American author Edna Ferber first published by Doubleday Doran. Set in the Housatonic region of Connecticut, the story, spanning the years 1700 to 1930, relates the steady decline of the Oakes family and their property, as well as their tense relations with Polish immigrants. The title comes from a line within the book. According to the story, Christopher Wren, who helped design the Oakes family mansion, said Connecticut has ""a kind of American beauty,"" resembling Kent but possessing larger and higher landscapes. True Baldwin, a millionaire, unnerved by the"
"space for presentations, meetings and other private hire uses. Originally the barn belonged to Clare House which was owned by Philip Sewell, a local benefactor, from 1864 to 1906. Anna Sewell, author of the children’s story ""Black Beauty"", was Philip’s sister and lived in the White House, Spixworth Road, Spixworth. Philip owned a mare called Black Bess which used to draw his carriage along Spixworth Road and it might be supposed that Bess was the original inspiration for Black Beauty, and the barn a prototype for Black Beauty’s stable. The book was published by Jarrolds in 1877. Philip Sewell died"
"Cruelty to Animals was created in 1824 in London, in response to animal suffering. Its logo represents an angel come to punish a man beating his horse. The novel ""Black Beauty"", published in 1877 in Victorian England, is known as the first work that addresses equine welfare. Its originality is in giving voice to several horses who recount their daily suffering, in the form of an autobiography. It raises a strong awareness for the cause of the horses. The author, Anna Sewell, shows herself to be ahead of her time in terms of animal protection: her novel takes a stand"
"Beauty"" in 1696. Others may have been published in additional literary magazines, however it is unknown whether they appeared in the magazines before the book's publications or whether they were later pirated editions. The author of the volume was given as Pierre Perrault Darmancour, Perrault's 19-year-old son, whom it was believed to have written the stories. However Zipes claims modern scholarship shows little evidence the son wrote the stories, nor that the volume was the result of a collaboration between father and son. Almost certainly Perrault the elder was the author. It is possible that the son's name, and the"
"the farm. He is being forced to sell it, however, because of the greed of his half brother and sister. American Beauty (Ferber novel) American Beauty is a 1931 novel by American author Edna Ferber first published by Doubleday Doran. Set in the Housatonic region of Connecticut, the story, spanning the years 1700 to 1930, relates the steady decline of the Oakes family and their property, as well as their tense relations with Polish immigrants. The title comes from a line within the book. According to the story, Christopher Wren, who helped design the Oakes family mansion, said Connecticut has"
"Black Alice (novel) Black Alice is a novel by Thomas M. Disch and John Sladek (writing as Thom Demijohn), published in 1968. During the 1960s, in Virginia, while the blacks fight for their civil rights, a young white girl is kidnapped in Baltimore. Little Alice Raleigh, eleven years and blonde like corn, and heiress of an immense fortune, is held for a ransom of a million dollars. Her kidnappers, trying to make her invisible to the police officers and the federal agents searching for her, manage to brown her skin and her hair. They sequester her under an assumed name"
"Terrible Beauty (novel) Terrible Beauty is the first novel by New York congressman Peter T. King. The book, published in 1999, is set in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. Its protagonist, Bernadette Hanlon, becomes involved with the Irish Republican Army after her husband is framed for the murder of a British soldier. The title is taken from the W. B. Yeats poem ""Easter, 1916"". The book received some notice when President Clinton was seen carrying it as he exited a helicopter. ""Publishers Weekly"" found the book to be ""propaganda-heavy"". Thomas Oliphant of ""The Boston Globe"" called it a ""a riveting"
"Beauty (novel) Beauty is a novel by Raphael Selbourne first published in 2009 about a young Muslim woman – the eponymous heroine – in search of personal freedom. ""Beauty"" was awarded the 2009 Costa First Novel Award. Set in Wolverhampton, England, ""Beauty"" relays the tribulations of ten days in the life of Beauty Begum, a nineteen-year-old Muslim Bengali woman who has survived a substantial degree of physical and emotional harm from her family. As a consequence of the fact that the novel is told using an oscillating narrator, the reader has the benefit of 'hearing' the thoughts of the main"
"American Beauty (1927 film) American Beauty is a lost 1927 American silent film romantic drama produced and distributed by First National Pictures. This film was directed by Richard Wallace and starred Billie Dove. It is based on a short story ""American Beauty"" by Wallace Irwin. Walter McGrail and Margaret Livingston are also in the cast. Billy Dove stars as the title character, Millicent Howard, whose appearance and persona bring her a life of luxury. A millionaire named Claverhouse asks her to marry, but she values love more than wealth, and she sacrifices everything for another man, who is less wealthy,"
"The Sleeping Beauty (novel) The Sleeping Beauty is a novel by Mercedes Lackey, published in 2010 as the fifth book of the Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. As in the previous book, ""The Snow Queen"", characters from earlier books are either mentioned or appear as secondary characters ""The Sleeping Beauty"" was written by Mercedes Lackey as the fifth installment in her Tales of the Five Hundred Kingdoms series. Lily is the godmother to the Kingdom of Eltaria, which is quite wealthy due to its vast number of mines. After its queen dies, Lily takes on the appearance of"
"have been instrumental in the abolition of the cruel practice of using the checkrein (or ""bearing rein"", a strap used to keep horses' heads high, fashionable in Victorian England but painful and damaging to a horse's neck). ""Black Beauty"" also mentions the use of blinkers on horses, concluding that this use is likely to cause accidents at night due to interference with ""the full use of"" a horse's ability to ""see much better in the dark than men can."" The story is narrated in the first person as an autobiographical memoir told by the titular horse named Black Beauty—beginning with"
"Sleeping Beauty (short story) ""Sleeping Beauty"" is a science fiction short story by Arthur C. Clarke, first published in the magazine "" Infinity Science Fiction"" in April 1957, and later anthologized in"" Tales from the White Hart"". Like the rest of the collection, it is a frame story set in the fictional pub ""White Hart"", where Harry Purvis narrates the secondary tale. A discussion of bizarre names leads Harry Purvis to describe Sigmund Snoring, whose family had one of those European names that ""starts with 'Sch' and carries on in the same manner"" but Anglicized it with unfortunate results. Sigmund,"
"The Black Riders and Other Lines The Black Riders and Other Lines is a book of poetry written by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). It was first published in 1895 by Copeland & Day. In the winter of 1893, Crane borrowed a suit from John Northern Hilliard and visited the critic and editor William Dean Howells, who introduced Crane to the poetry of Emily Dickinson. Crane was inspired by her writing and, within several months, wrote the beginnings of what became his first book of poetry. One friend recalled that he saw Crane's first attempts at poetry in mid-February 1894"
"novels such as ""Jane Eyre"" (1847), ""The Woman in White"" (1859), and ""Rebecca"" (1938) - a young, impressionable girl meets a mysterious widower in a mansion filled with the memories of his first wife who has suffered a tragic death. The romance between the young governess and her handsome employer is hampered by the mystery surrounding the tragic death of his first wife. Looking to solve the mystery, the young woman starts poking around the gloomy corners of the spooky mansion set on the wild Cornish cliffs. The novel was published by Doubleday in the United States and Collins in"
"William Black (novelist) William Black (13 November 1841 – 10 December 1898) was a novelist born in Glasgow, Scotland. During his own lifetime Black's novels were immensely popular, and were compared favourably with those of Anthony Trollope. However, his fame and popularity did not survive long into the twentieth century. William was born to James Black and his second wife Caroline Conning. He was educated to be a landscape painter, a training that influenced his literary life, and as a writer he became celebrated for the detailed and atmospheric descriptions of landscapes and seascapes in novels such as ""White Wings:"
"Sewell Park Academy Sewell Park Academy is a secondary school located on the north-eastern edge of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. It has approximately 800 students aged eleven to sixteen (years 7 to 11). It is situated between St. Clements Hill and ""Constitution Hill"" (B1150), east of New Catton. On the school grounds is the Sewell Barn Theatre. The name of the school comes from Philip Sewell, the brother of Anna Sewell, the author of ""Black Beauty"". It was The Blyth School, a grammar school, which was built in 1929 in grounds owned by Philip Sewell, who died in"
"Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty (), or Little Briar Rose (), also titled in English as The Sleeping Beauty in the Woods, is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, a sleeping enchantment, and a handsome prince. The tale was originally published by Charles Perrault. The version collected by the Brothers Grimm was an orally transmitted version of the original literary tale published by Perrault in ""Histoires ou contes du temps passé"" in 1697. This in turn was based on ""Sun, Moon, and Talia"" by Italian poet Giambattista Basile (published posthumously in 1634), which was in turn based on"
"from Summer 2015. Sewell Park Academy Sewell Park Academy is a secondary school located on the north-eastern edge of the city of Norwich, Norfolk, England. It has approximately 800 students aged eleven to sixteen (years 7 to 11). It is situated between St. Clements Hill and ""Constitution Hill"" (B1150), east of New Catton. On the school grounds is the Sewell Barn Theatre. The name of the school comes from Philip Sewell, the brother of Anna Sewell, the author of ""Black Beauty"". It was The Blyth School, a grammar school, which was built in 1929 in grounds owned by Philip Sewell,"
"The Triumph of Beauty The Triumph of Beauty is a Caroline era masque, written by James Shirley and first published in 1646. The masque shows a strong influence of Shakespeare's ""A Midsummer Night's Dream."" The plot of the masque draws upon one of the most famous tales of Greek mythology, the Judgement of Paris; Shirley derives some material from the ""Dialogues"" of Lucian. (Shirley had previously used the same subject matter in the masque in Act V of his 1640 play ""The Constant Maid."") The cast includes all the principals of the story, with the divinities occurring in their Roman"
"character, generally regarded as a stand in for the author, is also featured in King's third novel, ""Vale of Tears"", published in 2004. Terrible Beauty (novel) Terrible Beauty is the first novel by New York congressman Peter T. King. The book, published in 1999, is set in Northern Ireland in the 1980s. Its protagonist, Bernadette Hanlon, becomes involved with the Irish Republican Army after her husband is framed for the murder of a British soldier. The title is taken from the W. B. Yeats poem ""Easter, 1916"". The book received some notice when President Clinton was seen carrying it as"
"The Sleeping Beauty Quartet The Sleeping Beauty Quartet is a series of four novels written by American author Anne Rice under the pseudonym of A. N. Roquelaure. The quartet comprises ""The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty"", ""Beauty's Punishment"", ""Beauty's Release"", and ""Beauty's Kingdom"", first published individually in 1983, 1984, 1985, and 2015 in the United States. They are erotic BDSM novels set in a medieval fantasy world, loosely based on the fairy tale of ""Sleeping Beauty"". The novels describe explicit sexual adventures of the female protagonist Beauty and the male characters Alexi, Tristan and Laurent, featuring both maledom and femdom scenarios"
"The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses The Black Arrow: A Tale of the Two Roses is an 1888 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. It is both an historical adventure novel and a romance novel. It first appeared as a serial in 1883 with the subtitle ""A Tale of Tunstall Forest"" beginning in ""Young Folks; A Boys' and Girls' Paper of Instructive and Entertaining Literature,"" vol. XXII, no. 656 (Saturday, 30 June 1883) and ending in the issue for Saturday, 20 October 1883—Stevenson had finished writing it by the end of summer. It was printed under the pseudonym"
"Black Venus (short story collection) Black Venus (also published as ""Saints and Strangers"") is a collection of short fiction by Angela Carter. It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1985 by Chatto & Windus Ltd. and contains eight stories, the majority of which are concerned with re-imagining the lives of certain figures in history, with a particular emphasis on some well known through literature. The ""Black Venus"" of the title story is Jeanne Duval, the lover of poet Charles Baudelaire. The anthology's contents are also reprinted in the volume ""Burning Your Boats"", which features all of Carter's short"
"Caresse Crosby Caresse Crosby (born Mary Phelps Jacob; April 20, 1891 – January 26, 1970) was the first recipient of a patent for the modern bra, an American patron of the arts, publisher, and the ""literary godmother to the Lost Generation of expatriate writers in Paris."" She and her second husband, Harry Crosby, founded the Black Sun Press, which was instrumental in publishing some of the early works of many authors who would later become famous, among them Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, Kay Boyle, Charles Bukowski, Hart Crane, and Robert Duncan. Crosby's parents, William Hearn Jacob"
"a struggle to defend the possibility of genuine human relationships in his novel ""Another Country"". The writings of Toni Morrison are also contributions to black existentialism. Her 1970 novel ""The Bluest Eye"" examines how ""ugliness"" and ""beauty"" dominate black women's lives as imitations of white women as the standard of beauty. Her famous novel ""Beloved"" (1987) raises the question of the trauma that haunts black existence from slavery. In Spain the Catalan writer Nuria Perpinya reflects the prejudices of race of two homosexual scientists (one of which is a descendant from the African-American astronomer ancestor Benjamin Banneker) in her novel"