![]() ![]() It was an instant bestseller and raised awareness about laws against animal abuse, but Sewell didn't live to see how enormously well her book would do.Īnna Sewell is a personal hero because even as she was dying she wanted to help the animals that made her life so much better. ![]() Eventually she finished it and sent it off to be published, although she died on April 25, 1878, only five months after the book was released. Even when she was so weak that she had to let her mother write the sentences down as she spoke them, she never gave up writing the book. Sadly, around this time she developed hepatitis, a disease that killed many people in her era. When she was in her fifties she began writing a book that she hoped would teach people to be kinder and more understanding of their animals, the classic Black Beauty. This made her love horses for letting her be able to leave her house, but she also noticed some of the abuse that horses went through. To make life easier for her, Sewell's parents bought her a horse and small carriage so she would be able to move around the town. This made her very dependant on her family. ![]() She would never be able to stand up or walk for a long time again. When Sewell was 14 she tripped and fell walking home from school and badly injured her ankles. Her mom taught her to love animals and nature from a young age. Her mother was a Quaker who homeschooled Sewell before letting her go to public school. Her father was named Isaac Sewell and her mother was Mary Wright Sewell. Anna Sewell was born on Main Norfolk, England. ![]()
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