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Printer Friendly 24,614,333 articles and books Periodicals Literature Keyword Title Author Topic The Free Library > Literature > Anna Sewell Anna Sewell (1820 - 1878) Anna Sewell was born on March 30th, 1820 in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, the daughter of a writer and a bank manager, both devoted Quakers. Following an accident as a child, Anna became crippled and experienced ill health most of her life. She got around by using horse-drawn carriages. Sewell's mother, a successful writer of juvenile fiction, allowed Sewell to edit her texts. "I never yet could make out why men are so fond of this sport; they often hurt themselves, often spoil good horses, and tear up the fields, and all for a hare, or a fox, or a stag, that they could get more easily some other way; but we are only horses, and don't know." ( Black Beauty ) Sewell began writing her first and only book, Black Beauty (1877), while bedridden. Told from the horses' perspective, Sewell wrote the book with hopes of changing the public's attitude about the cruelty that was regularly inflicted on horses at the time of the book's writing. "We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words." ( Black Beauty ) She died on April 25th, 1878 in Old Catton, Norfolk. Suggested sites for Anna Sewell: Encyclopedia article about Anna Sewell Texts by Sewell Black Beauty The life of horse told by the animal, itself, that begins in squalor and ends in happiness. Publications by Name Publications by Date Authors Literature A-D E-O P-T U-Z before 1995 1995-1999 2000-2004 2005-2009 2010- A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Terms of use | Privacy policy | Copyright © 2020 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters...