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Writing Black Beauty - Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights (Hardcover)
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Writing Black Beauty - Anna Sewell and the Story of Animal Rights (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R521
Discovery Miles 5 210
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Black Beauty is a novel that changed our world. Intended to
‘induce kindness’ in a Victorian audience who relied on horses
for transport, travel and power, it remains a dearly loved
children’s classic. Writing Black Beauty is the story of the
remarkable woman who wrote this phenomenal book. Born in 1820 to a
young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She
was 14 when she fell and injured her ankle, leaving her permanently
disabled. Rejecting the limitations that Victorian society forced
on disabled people, she developed an extraordinary empathy with
horses, learning to ride side-saddle and drive a small carriage.
Rebellious and independent-minded, Anna left the Quaker movement as
a young woman but remained close friends with the women writers and
abolitionists who had been empowered by its liberal principles. It
was not until she became terminally ill, aged 51, that she wrote
her own book. It was published in 1877, but Anna tragically died
just five months later. After modest success in Britain, Black
Beauty was taken up by American activist George Thorndike Angell,
who made it one of the bestselling novels of all time. Using newly
discovered archive material, Celia Brayfield shows how Anna Sewell
developed the extraordinary resilience to rouse the conscience of
Victorian Britain and make her mark upon the world.
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