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Anna Sewell

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Anna Sewell


Born
in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, The United Kingdom
March 30, 1820

Died
April 25, 1878

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Mary Wright Sewell


Anna Sewell was a kind and generous woman whose great love for horses and desire to see them better treated resulted in the most celebrated animal story of the nineteenth century.

Born into a strict Quaker family who lived at Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, she was brought up to believe in the importance of self-reliance, moral responsibility and 'tender consideration for the Creatures of God'. From an early age she developed a strong love of animals and abhorred any form of cruelty towards them. She seemed to have a natural affinity with horses, and the great knowledge of horsemanship evident in Black Beauty was born from a lifetime's experience. Anna received her education at home from her mother, who as well as instilling in her a sense of
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“It is good people who make good places.”
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“If they strain me up tight, why, let 'em look out! I can't bear it, and I won't.”
Anna Sewell , Black Beauty

“We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.”
Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

Polls

May 2016 Old School Classic Poll

1877, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, 245 pages
 
  43 votes, 19.0%

 
  37 votes, 16.4%

1853, Villette by Charlotte Brontë, 573 pages
 
  29 votes, 12.8%

 
  21 votes, 9.3%

1796, The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis, 386 pages
 
  16 votes, 7.1%

1867, Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola, 201 pages
 
  15 votes, 6.6%

1895, Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy, 310 pages
 
  13 votes, 5.8%

1833, Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin, 240 pages
 
  11 votes, 4.9%

 
  10 votes, 4.4%

 
  9 votes, 4.0%

1864, Uncle Silas by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 477 pages
 
  8 votes, 3.5%

 
  8 votes, 3.5%

1859, Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov, 567 pages
 
  6 votes, 2.7%

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