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 long enough to see her only novel[...]

Mathilda is the finished draft of a short novel by Mary Shelley. Its adult theme, concerning a father?s incestuous love for his daughter and its consequences, meant that the manuscript was suppressed by Shelley?s own father, and not published until 1959, more than a hundred years after her death.[...]