The book broke records for sales and is the "sixth best seller in the English language." By telling the story of a horse's life in the form of an autobiography and describing the world through the eyes of the horse, Anna Sewell broke new literary ground. She sold the book to the local publishers, Jarrold & Sons. Her dearly-loved mother often had to help her with her illness.
During this time, her health was declining, and she could barely get out of bed. Her only book was Black Beauty, written between 18 in her house at Old Catton. In visits to European spas, she met many writers, artists, and philanthropists. Sewell's introduction to writing began in her youth when she helped edit the works of her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1797–1884), a deeply religious, popular author of juvenile best-sellers.Īnna Sewell never married or had children.
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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