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Anna Sewell Research Paper

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Anna Sewell was perhaps the only person whom book was called "the first significant children's story in English language." She was born in Norfolk, England on March 30, 1820. Her father was Isaac Sewell (1793-1879), and her mother, Mary Wright Sewell (1798 - 1884) was a successful writer of children's books in her own right. She faced many challenges and accomplishments in her lifetime. Growing up she loved riding horses and telling stories. As a young girl, Anna was more concerned about the humane treatment of horses and she often spent hours with her father traveling to and from the station. She helped her mother edit her manuscripts from an early age and published her own in 1877. Sewell received most of her education at home and had a younger brother named Philip.
Sewell wrote the book Black Beauty the last seven years of her life. She began writing it 1871 and published it in 1877. It was dedicated to including kindness, sympathy, and an understanding treatment of horses little did she know it would become a best-seller. She …show more content…

At the age of fourteen she fell and sprained her ankle while running down a steep carriage. Despite this, and most likely because of mistreatment of her injury, Sewell was lame for the rest of her life and was unable to stand without a crutch or to walk for any length of time. She did however travel to health spas in Germany and Spain to help cure her ankle injuries. Also, growing up, she was often too weak to hold the pencil herself, so instead her mother wrote while Anna told her story. Following that in 1871, Sewell was confined her home by her disability. Sewell became increasingly ill during the writing of Black Beauty, and it is only through her mother’s transcription and dictation that the novel was completed. Anna Sewell died of hepatitis on April 25, 1878 just five months after her publication, living long enough to see the book's initial early

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