Anna Sewell

Anna Sewell was born in 1820 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, into a Quaker family. Her mother, Mary Wright Sewell, was a successful writer of books for children. At the age of fourteen she slipped and injured her ankle, which never healed properly, and walking was difficult for the rest of her life, so she often used a horse-drawn carriage to get around. She grew close to horses and disliked the cruel ways some were treated, such as the bearing rein, which held a horse's head painfully high for fashion. In her fifties, while her health was failing, she wrote Black Beauty, the life story of a horse told in his own words. It was published in 1877 with the subtitle 'The Autobiography of a Horse'. Anna Sewell died in 1878, only a few months after the book appeared, but Black Beauty became one of the best-selling books in English.

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Faith: Born into a Quaker family in Norfolk. Source: Wikipedia