Her dependence on horse-drawn transportation fostered her respect for horses. Disabled and unable to walk, she began learning about horses, spending many hours driving her father to and from the station from which he commuted to work. Through the mistreatment of the injury, she became unable to walk or stand for any length of time for the rest of her life. At the age of 14, Anna fell while walking home from school in the rain and injured both ankles. It is seen as a forerunner of the pony book.Īnna Sewell was born in Great Yarmouth, England, and had a brother named Philip, who was an engineer in Europe. In 2003, the novel was listed at number 58 on the BBC's survey The Big Read. While forthrightly teaching animal welfare, it also teaches how to treat people with kindness, sympathy, and respect. With fifty million copies sold, Black Beauty is one of the best-selling books of all time. 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. It was composed in the last years of her life, during which she was bedridden and seriously ill. Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, the Autobiography of a Horse is an 1877 novel by English author Anna Sewell.
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