While she intended the book to be read mainly by workers who cared for horses, Black Beauty became both a timeless children's story and a rallying point for the British and American Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Despite the fact that the novel would become a classic, it was her only published work and would appear in print only three months before her death. The life of the English writer Anna Sewell, the author of Black Beauty, was filled with paradoxes. Watts, 1959) Charlotte Hough (Penguin, 1968) Victor Ambrus (Brockhampton, 1973). Woodward (Bell, 1931) Rowland Wheelwright (Harrap, 1932) John Beer (Dodd, 1941) Fritz Eichenberg (Grosset, 1945) Wesley Dennis (World, 1946) (illustrated and adapted) Paul Brown (Scribner, 1952) Lionel Edwards (Ward, Lock, 1954) Charles Mozley (F. Murphy, 1891) other editions include those illustrated by Cecil Aldin (Jarrold, 1912) Katharine Pyle (Dodd, 1923) Alice B. Selected writings:īlack Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse (Jarrold, 1877, published in America as Black Beauty: His Grooms and Companions, J.F. Moved to Dalston, where she was given horse-riding lessons (1822) moved to Stoke Newington, where she eventually injured an ankle while running during a rainstorm (1832) moved to Brighton (1836) moved to Wick and began teaching a class in biology to workingmen (1848) received hydrotherapy treatments in Germany (18) moved to Old Catton (1867) began writing Black Beauty (1871) completed manuscript for Black Beauty and was paid £20 for the story (1877) published Black Beauty during Christmas season (1877) favorable reviews appeared (January 1878) 30,000 copies sold at time of her death (1878). Born on March 30, 1820, in Yarmouth, Norfolk, England died in Old Catton, near Norwich, England, on Apdaughter of Isaac Sewell (a bank manager) and Mary Wright Sewell (a writer) had one brother educated at home with books purchased from her mother's earnings as a writer and at a day school near Stoke Newington never married. English writer whose sole published work, Black Beauty, became both a bestselling children's classic and a rallying cry for 19th-century organizations which campaigned for the humane treatment of animals.
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