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Although Black Beauty is looked at as a children's novel, Sewell did not write the novel for children. She said that her purpose in writing the novel was "to induce kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses" [ 1 ] —an influence she attributed to an essay on animals she read earlier by Horace Bushnell (1802–1876) entitled "Essay on Animals". [ 8 ]
- Anna Sewell
- 1877
Nov 24, 2019 · Adults did read her tale when it came out. The book published with the title, Black Beauty, his grooms and companions; the autobiography of a horse, ‘Translated from the original equine by Anna ...
- Nicholas Barron
Nov 2, 2012 · NPR's Backseat Book Club is back! And we begin this round of reading adventures with a cherished classic: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell. Generations of children and adults have loved this book.
- Michele Norris
Oct 15, 2024 · Black Beauty, a handsome well-born, well-bred horse of the era before automobiles, narrates the story. He is initially owned by kind masters but is sold to successively crueler owners. Eventually he collapses from overwork and ill treatment, but in the end he is sold to another kind owner and recovers. Beauty is an ideal horse—obedient ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Anna Sewell (/ ˈsjuːəl /; [2] 30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) [1] was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. [3] Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty ...
382 books846 followers. Anna Sewell was an English novelist who wrote the 1877 novel Black Beauty, her only published work. It is considered one of the top ten best-selling novels for children, although the author intended it for adults. Sewell died only five months after the publication of Black Beauty, but long enough to see her only novel ...
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Aug 27, 2020 · Generally read at the perilously emotional time when a child crosses the threshold to adult life, Black Beauty is a work of inconsolable grief. It is read obsessively, as though it contained lessons which must be learned, no matter how painful’ (97). Black Beauty ‘remains in the mind like
