Anna Sewell: The Woman Who Wrote Black Beauty by Susan Chitty
The children's novel "Black Beauty" written by Anna Sewell wrote the children's novel "Black Beauty" in her fifties, and sold it outright for GBP20. She did not live to know of its success. This work chronicles her extraordinary life from the tragic accident that left her lame at the age of 14 to the writing of her novel from her death bed.