Little did she anticipate that it would become a one of the top ten bestselling children’s novels of all times. When Sewell wrote Black Beauty, her target readership comprised of adults. Much of Black Beauty was taken down by her mother as she continued to dictate. Anna, born this day in 1820, died at the age of 58 as she was afflicted with tuberculosis. It is indeed heart-breaking that Anna Sewell didn’t live long enough to see her first and only published work become a raging success, but it is solace enough for the soul behind the work that it served its purpose better than intended. “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.”
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