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Anna Sewell was an English novelist, well known as the author of the children’s novel Black Beauty. Black Beauty is of the top ten best-selling novels for children ever written. While living in Old Catton, Sewell wrote the manuscript of Black Beauty in the period between 1871 and 1877. Although the book is now considered a children's classic, Se...
Anna Sewell was an English novelist, well known as the author of the children’s novel Black Beauty. Black Beauty is of the top ten best-selling novels for children ever written. While living in Old Catton, Sewell wrote the manuscript of Black Beauty in the period between 1871 and 1877. Although the book is now considered a children's classic, Sewell originally wrote it for those who worked with horses. She said, "a special aim was to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses". She dictated the text to her mother and from 1876 began to write on slips of paper which her mother then transcribed.