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From sofa to saddle The author of Black Beauty lived at a walk not a gallop, says Jane Shilling
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040328
Author:by Jane Shilling
Dark Horse: A Life of Anna Sewell
by Adrienne E. Gavin
Sutton, pounds 20, 279 pp
pounds 18 ( pounds 2.25 p&p) 0870 155 7222
OF ALL the challenges encountered by a literary biographer, perhaps the most formidable is a subject who lead a life unrelieved by violent incident, intemperate emotion or interesting vice, but followed a daily round as steady as that of the most blameless accountant or housewife, unbalanced only by the shocking possession of a genius for storytelling.
This is the problem faced by Adrienne E. Gavin in her biography of Anna Sewell, the 19th-century invalid spinster who in ...
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