How many copies did the book, written in 1877 by the author with close historical links to the Sewell Barn Theatre, sell?
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Sewell Barn Theatre Sewell Barn Theatre is located in the grounds of Sewell Park Academy (formerly the Blyth school, later the Blyth-Jex school and Sewell Park College) on Constitution Hill in Norwich, England. It is home to a popular amateur theatre company, with close historical links to the author Anna Sewell who wrote "Black Beauty".
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Black Beauty Black Beauty is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she remained in her house as an invalid. The novel became an immediate best-seller, with Sewell dying just five months after its publication, but having lived long enough to see her only novel become a success. With fifty million copies sold, "Black Beauty" is one of the best-selling books of all time.
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Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy Elizabeth Whitfield Croom Bellamy (or Emily Whitfield Croom Bellamy; pen name, Kamba Thorpe; 1837–1900) was an American novelist and essayist, born in Quincy, Florida, 17 April, 1839. She was educated in Springer Institute, New York City. She taught in a female seminary in Eutaw, Alabama, for several years. Bellamy wrote under the pen-name "Kamba Thorpe" (sometimes misspelled, "Kampa Thorpe") "Four Oaks" (New York, 1867), and "Little Joanna" (New York, 1876). Additional works included "Old Man Gilbert" (1888) and the "The Luck of the Pendennings" (1895, Ladies Home Journal). She contributed essays to the "Mobile Sunday Times". Bellamy died in 1900.
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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second popular novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe. It was first published in two volumes by Phillips, Sampson and Company in 1856. Although it enjoyed better initial sales than her previous, and more famous, novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin", it was ultimately less popular. "Dred" was of a more documentary nature than "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and thus lacked a character like Uncle Tom to evoke strong emotion from readers.
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Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann (14 September 1765, Jena - 12 June 1837, Jena) was a German bookseller and publisher in Jena, active in the circles of Weimar Classicism and a friend and patron of (among others) Goethe, Minna Herzlieb and Louise Seidler.
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John Nicholas Genin John Nicholas Genin was born in 1819. A hatter by profession, Genin reached national prominence in the 1850s. Like P.T. Barnum, his neighbor on Broadway, Genin had a remarkable knack for using publicity to boost his business. In 1850, at Barnum's urging, Genin made the winning auction bid of $225 for the first seat sold for the sensational cross-country tour by the singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale, and reaped the tremendous publicity that followed. Every important newspaper in the country reported Genin's bid. Barnum wrote in his "Struggles and Triumphs" (1865) that "John N. Genin, the hatter, laid the foundation of his fortune" with that purchase. Throughout the country, men and women took off their hats to check whether they were wearing "a Genin".
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John Palgrave Simpson John Palgrave Simpson (1807–1887) was a Victorian playwright. He wrote more than fifty pieces in a variety of genres, including dramas, comedies, operas, and spectacles, between 1850 and 1885. Simpson also published novels, travel books and journalistic commentaries. He served as secretary of the Dramatic Authors' Society from 1868 to 1883.
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Peter Harvey (writer) Peter Harvey (October 17, 1798 – July 12, 1877) was an American merchant and author contemporary of Daniel Webster. He was known as Webster's closest friend and confidant. Harvey is known for the book that he authored about the life of Webster.
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George Wombwell George Wombwell, (24 December 1777 at Dudnorend, near Saffron Walden – 16 November 1850 at Northallerton), was a famous menagerie exhibitor in Regency and early Victorian Britain. He founded Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie.
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Swine Not? Swine Not? (2008) is a novel by Jimmy Buffett about a pig. Buffett's friend, Helen Bransford, asked him to review her 25-page nonfiction manuscript describing her four years living at New York's Carlyle Hotel with her then-husband Jay McInerney, two children, and pet pig. Buffett asked her permission to expand it into a novel. Bransford provided the illustrations.
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Martin Cash Martin Cash (baptised 10 October 1808 – 26 August 1877) was a notorious convict bushranger known for escaping twice from Port Arthur, Van Diemen's Land. His 1870 autobiography "The Adventures of Martin Cash", ghostwritten by James Lester Burke, a former convict, became a best seller in Australia.
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James Agate James Evershed Agate (9 September 1877 – 6 June 1947) was an English diarist and one of Britain's most influential theatre critics between the two world wars. He found his way into journalism in his late twenties, on the staff of "The Manchester Guardian" (1907–14) and as a drama critic for "The Saturday Review" (1921–23), and "The Sunday Times" (1923–47). He also reviewed drama for the BBC (1925–32). The nine volumes of Agate's diaries and letters, entitled "Ego", record the British theatre of his era and his non-theatrical interests, including sports, social gossip and his private preoccupations with his health and precarious finances. He also wrote film and literary criticism for London newspapers, published three novels, translated a play that was staged in London, albeit briefly, and regularly brought out collections of his theatre essays and reviews.
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1876 (novel) 1876 is the third historical novel in Gore Vidal's Narratives of Empire series. It was published in 1976 and details the events of a year described by Vidal himself as "probably the low point in our republic's history."
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Farmer Boy Farmer Boy is a children's historical novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published in 1933. It was the second-published one in the "Little House" series but it is not related to the first, which that of the third directly continues. Thus the latter, "Little House on the Prairie", is sometimes called the second one in the series, or the second volume of "the Laura Years".
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George Clifford Shedd George Clifford Shedd (1877 – January 8, 1937) was an early 20th-century American writer. Several of his novels were adapted into films. His novel "The Incorrigible Dukane" (1911) was made into a film starring John Barrymore in 1915, and "In the Shadow of the Hills" (1919) was adapted for the screen as "Cold Steel" (1921).
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George Smith Drew George Smith Drew (1819–1880) was an English clergyman and writer, Hulsean lecturer in 1877.
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Abel Stevens Abel Stevens (1815–1897) was an American clergyman, editor, and author known for his books on Methodist religious history. He wrote "History of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States of America", an early history of the church that is frequently referenced in historical works, and "A Compendious History of American Methodism".
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Caroline Lee Hentz Caroline Lee Whiting Hentz (June 1, 1800, Lancaster, Massachusetts – February 11, 1856, Marianna, Florida) was an American novelist and author, most noted for her opposition to the abolitionist movement and her widely read "The Planter's Northern Bride", a rebuttal to Harriet Beecher Stowe's popular anti-slavery book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin". She was a major literary figure in her day, and helped advance women's fiction.
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Sarah Barnwell Elliott Sarah Barnwell Elliott (November 29, 1848 – August 30, 1928) was a novelist, short story writer, and an advocate of women's rights.
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Addison Peale Russell Addison Peale Russell (September 8, 1826 – July 24, 1912) was an American author of the later nineteenth century. He is remembered mainly for his "Sub-Coelum" — "his best book...a Utopian protest against materialistic socialism."
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William Hope Hodgson William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and science fiction. Hodgson used his experiences at sea to lend authentic detail to his short horror stories, many of which are set on the ocean, including his series of linked tales forming the "Sargasso Sea Stories". His novels, such as "The House on the Borderland" (1908) and "The Night Land" (1912), feature more cosmic themes, but several of his novels also focus on horrors associated with the sea. Early in his writing career Hodgson dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer and achieved renown as a bodybuilder. He died in World War I at age 40.
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Dan Emmett Daniel Decatur "Dan" Emmett (October 29, 1815 – June 28, 1904) was an American songwriter, entertainer, and founder of the first troupe of the blackface minstrel tradition.