Sewell, Anna

Anna Sewell is best remembered for her novel Black Beauty: An Autobiography of a Horse (1877), her only publication.  She was born into a Quaker family, and, because of a childhood injury, was lame for life.  Restricted to bed, she dictated her novel to her mother and wrote on scraps of paper. The novel was immensely popular; Sewell died only a few months after its publication. ;

Anna Sewell is best remembered for her novel “Black Beauty: An Autobiography of a Horse” (1877), her only publication. She was born into a Quaker family, and, because of a childhood injury, was lame for life. Restricted to bed, she dictated her novel to her mother and wrote on scraps of paper. The novel was immensely popular; Sewell died only a few months after its publication. ;