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New light on a dark horse.
From: The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
Date: 20040404
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Byline: KATHRYN HUGHES
Dark Horse by Adrienne E. Gavin Sutton Publishing [pounds sterling]20 . [pounds sterling]16 ***
A few weeks short of her 51st birthday in 1871, Anna Sewell, a pious spinster living in Norwich, was told she had only 18 months to live.
The news came as no great shock.
Miss Sewell had been lame since childhood - the result of a simple sprained ankle that went badly wrong - and in later years endured chronic ill-health, which her biographer, Adrienne Gavin, believes may have been the result of lupus, an autoimmune disease that was unknown to ...
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